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Are air miles taxed in the US? United airlines has a bug bounty program and they send you a 1099 for the miles and they say the points are valued a 2% of point value (you are taxed on this). After calculating the point value and the amount I would pay for flights, I would actually pay more money in taxes than I would if I just paid for the flight myself, making the points mostly worthless.
The tax question I've always had is around conferences. If I attend a work-related conference in California, I'm being paid to be there and so that's California sourced income and I have to file taxes, right? During the pandemic when everybody was working from home, I thought about renting some place with more interesting scenery for a few weeks. I mentioned it to my bosses and was given a very short list of places w…
> If I attend a work-related conference in California, I'm being paid to be there and so that's California sourced income and I have to file taxes, right? I'm not an accountant but I have read that baseball players pay state taxes based on where they play, such as away games in a different state. I'm not sure if it applies to tech in the same way, it sounds like it would be a nightmare to file, especially if your com…
Jane IT, working at remote client site for a day is exactly the same but enforcing it would cost too much.
The tax question I've always had is around conferences. If I attend a work-related conference in California, I'm being paid to be there and so that's California sourced income and I have to file taxes, right? During the pandemic when everybody was working from home, I thought about renting some place with more interesting scenery for a few weeks. I mentioned it to my bosses and was given a very short list of places w…
That's one of the reasons why Mexico and Canada are so popular for company meetings.
Obviously the chances of getting caught are extremely slim but the consequences could be significant.
Wait, they managed to get Wing Commander 3 working on Windows 95?? > Bonus chatter: During one of the many iterations of this story being retold, someone remarked that they got a copy of the video game Wing Commander III through this exercise. I immediately remembered that they fulfilled their expectation by filing a bug against Windows 95: When you earned the cloaking device on level 58 or something, you couldn’t ac…
I remember playing (and finishing) it on a 166 MHz Win 95 machine.
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That's one of the reasons why Mexico and Canada are so popular for company meetings.
Wouldn't that open you up to both similar tax implications AND potential visa issues? You can't enter Canada on as a tourist and then do work. Obviously the chances of getting caught are extremely slim but the consequences could be significant.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
You need a passport and can't stay for more than 6 months.
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This sounds surprisingly logical to me as a Swede. Here you can be taxed for income even if you didn’t receive anything at all. Take for instance a company office with a canteen exclusively for employees. Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income.
> Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income. I actually fail to see what is logical here. And I would go further by saying it is neither logical, nor fair. First the basic point. Why should an employee be taxed for a service he is not making use of.…
That is the subject of a legendary Japanese story about judge Ōoka Tadasuke, pretty well known in Europe, and something Swedish children probably know.
Ōoka hears the case, and then rules that the jingling sound of the beggar's coins is enough compensation for the "stolen" smell.
(Ōoka was a real historic figure; the story may be apocryphal.)
What does it mean to "keep" the software? You can return the installation media, and say you erased the program, without having erased it. I would say that if you work for Microsoft and they give you a program free in order to test, then it's not a form of income. The program doesn't represent monetary value in that situation. Microsoft, the copyright holder, is licensing you to have a copy of that program under term…
This sounds surprisingly logical to me as a Swede. Here you can be taxed for income even if you didn’t receive anything at all. Take for instance a company office with a canteen exclusively for employees. Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income.
The benefit can be constrained to individuals, but then you usually get into fairness arguments and most people rather take the equivalent salary increase instead if given the option.
Either way, it is not going to be fair.
For this reason, most companies simply rather not offer free parking.
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This sounds surprisingly logical to me as a Swede. Here you can be taxed for income even if you didn’t receive anything at all. Take for instance a company office with a canteen exclusively for employees. Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income.
> Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income. I actually fail to see what is logical here. And I would go further by saying it is neither logical, nor fair. First the basic point. Why should an employee be taxed for a service he is not making use of.…
If the company provides cheap food it undercuts the local competition and the town as a whole suffers. Making the tax punitive like this would make the "price" of a subsidized company canteen very high. Either the employer would have to pay to subsidize and pay the employees more (so pay twice) or the policy would be unpopular. Or it's Sweden and everyone is fine with it because Sweden.
Are air miles taxed in the US? United airlines has a bug bounty program and they send you a 1099 for the miles and they say the points are valued a 2% of point value (you are taxed on this). After calculating the point value and the amount I would pay for flights, I would actually pay more money in taxes than I would if I just paid for the flight myself, making the points mostly worthless.
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It's a long time since I've pasted something into a Windows 95 DOS terminal, but I don't think it worked the way you're thinking. IIRC by default you couldn't just select text with the mouse - as DOS had never had mouse support, and didn't really have the concept of text being selected. You had to click a particular button to activate text selection before it was possible to copy. The GUI looked like this: https://co…
I suspect “paste” was more “simulate keyboard strokes that produce the text” in which case that could take a notable amount of time if you had a paragraph in the clipboard.