If I understand this correctly, this means a simple Website would be
deductable as a service purchase instead of as software. So what's the
problem?
RC
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Francis [mailto:locust@iinet.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 10:41
To: Michael Lean
Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] ATO Ruling
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Michael Lean wrote:
> >AUSTRALIAN IT INDUSTRY CRITICIZES TAX RULING
> >The Australian IT industry is criticizing a final decision
> >from the Australian Tax Office that rules that simple
> >Websites that involve converting documents to HTML and
> >adding a few links does not constitute software development.
>
>http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2467625%5E442,00.ht
ml
Well, it doesn't :)
Maybe simple website publishing deserves to be more deductible, but it
certainly doesn't merit the label "software development". Once you start
adding dynamic content to a site, and certainly once you start dealing
with money and credit card numbers, the skills required to develop the
website, and the cost thereof, enters an entirely different ballpark.
A lot of the time, when I hear about what someone paid to have a simple
website done, I can't help but feel they've been ripped off..
-- Andrew Francis locust@iinet.net.au
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