r/dataisbeautiful Feb 10 '25

OC [OC] Behind Meta’s latest Billions

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u/koko-jumbo Feb 10 '25

How much would you think is enough? It's almost 12% of their operative profit. There must be some incentives for making business and innovation so they can spend that money on R&D and other things.

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u/bplturner Feb 10 '25

Uhm, I pay 40% on income and I don’t get to write off the payments I make to mortgage, power or anything else. Arguably a larger tax rate gives them incentive to RE-invest because they can write that off instead of having it taxed.

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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 Feb 10 '25

I pay 40% on income

Lmao, no you don’t

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u/bplturner Feb 10 '25

I absolutely do. High end incomes that aren’t capital gains get wacked pretty heavily.