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How do you do taxes for something like this? Like lots of employees working in lots of different states/countries, no “home base”. Is there an easy way to do it?
there are payroll companies like https://justworks.com/ that have entities in each state to deal with the wage tax issue. that's the "easy" way as far as i know.
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One thing the average worker should watch out for is companies who perform geographically adjustment pay scales. Some WFH companies now even list that as a benefit that they do not do these type of adjustments. I'm not sure what the best answer is to that but feel many are using it as an excuse to pay workers less.
Why wouldn't companies use WFH for their own benefit? They are businesses. I find it weird that western workers somehow imagine that WFH means that they can happily work remote but not compete with other remote workers. The fact is that their big value-add has been the physical contact with the employer, as employers want to interact with their employees f2f for god knows what reason.
But I disagree with "f2f for god knows what reason.". Face-to-face is really important to lots of people. That group of people is relatively less well-represented in HN comment sections, where lots of hacker types who are motivated by the work and would prefer to avoid socialization hang out, but it's a huge factor for lots of people.
I, for one, am considering changing jobs to find one with an office as soon as possible if my workplace doesn't go back to having a physical office, which it looks like it won't.
As long as there are C-level executives, VPs, and the usual corporate heirarchy, they're not really decentralized in the sense that cryptocurrency itself is fully consensus-driven.
Do workers who are employees of a company but are working from home get to write off part of their home or apartment as a business expense, the way contractors and self-employed do?
Do workers who are employees of a company but are working from home get to write off part of their home or apartment as a business expense, the way contractors and self-employed do?
I just looked it up. Employees cannot.
With the pandemic there is a flat amount everyone can deduct for 2020.
Do workers who are employees of a company but are working from home get to write off part of their home or apartment as a business expense, the way contractors and self-employed do?
Just a pet peeve of mine - it seems like it's well intentioned, but for many people who really could use it (people in small spaces starting their own business), it's not applicable. On the other hand, it can cut a nice chunk off of a big house's mortgage.
I say this as someone who has never been able to take advantage of the writeoff despite working from a small home for years.
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Dumb question: How is such a block even effective? What keeps you from creating a temporary wallet outside Coinbase, sending your funds there from Coinbase and then sending the funds from the wallet to the blocked address?
Nothing keeps you from doing that, but Coinbase can easily detect that after the fact, and then ban you from using their service.