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Could you just make a CICD process that for each minting of a software license it cost a person's time to review and accept and then the wages for that individual become the write off. I.E. Convolute the software delivery process so that like a physical good, it has a per-unit to license cost to recoup. Or would that be argued as it could have just been automated and it's not really a real loss leader just bad policy?

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You don't lose this time for pirated copies of your software, as I assume you aren't taking this person's time to create a license for pirates.

To write something off you have to actually lose the money - writing off is a process to decrease your taxable income by your expenses, unless you're inventing fake expenses (read: performing tax fraud) it doesn't generate a greater amount of money than the expenses.

Why would you incur additional expenses just to be able to write them off?

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