Compensation-Based Innovation

In 2013 Meta counted $4.1 billion of Zuckerberg's stock options as research expense; the IRS is still trying to claw back the $355 million that saved, and separately seeks nearly $16 billion over Cayman Islands profits. Meta says it uses incentives Congress established decades ago. Baron Von Bottomline calls it compensation-based innovation capitalization.

Before the AI chips, Meta claimed the research tax credit on its chief executive's pay: in 2013 it counted $4.1 billion of stock options Mark Zuckerberg exercised as research expense because he helped invent software such as the News Feed, and the IRS is still trying to claw back the $355 million that saved; the IRS is separately seeking nearly $16 billion over profits it says Meta shifted to the Cayman Islands, and Meta says it uses incentives Congress established decades ago.

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