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Title: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: K Frame on November 12, 2020, 09:27:18 AM
PAY UP, BITCHES!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/deutsche-bank-proposes-a-5percent-tax-for-remote-workers-post-pandemic.html

It's all about FAIR SHARE, of course...
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: Ben on November 12, 2020, 09:36:23 AM
I wonder how that would go over here with the Google millionaire employees?
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 12, 2020, 09:38:29 AM
I have little doubt that such an idea will soon become popular here in the formerly Good Ole USA
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: MechAg94 on November 12, 2020, 10:52:28 AM
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Working from home meant that many people were saving on everyday costs such as travel, lunch, clothes and cleaning, as well as possibly spending less on socializing. However, the report also said it meant remote workers were “contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits.”
We want more money.  Those people have money.  Tax them!!
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 12, 2020, 03:26:00 PM
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This would cover the costs of grants for people who can’t work from home and are on lower incomes.

So are they assuming that everyone who is working from home is a CEO or other high-income person? I have a friend who is a mid-level manager for a hospital IT department. He has been working from home for months. Not just him -- his entire department, from his boss and his boss's boss down to the lowliest intern. How did they arrive at the idiotic conclusion that the people who can't work from home are on lower incomes?
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: Ben on November 12, 2020, 03:30:13 PM
So are they assuming that everyone who is working from home is a CEO or other high-income person? I have a friend who is a mid-level manager for a hospital IT department. He has been working from home for months. Not just him -- his entire department, from his boss and his boss's boss down to the lowliest intern. How did they arrive at the idiotic conclusion that the people who can't work from home are on lower incomes?

Not to mention all the minimum wage call center people who work from home.
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: Lennyjoe on November 13, 2020, 08:45:20 AM
I’m sure Kamala’s  advisors are reading the news and will add this to there agenda shortly.
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: charby on November 13, 2020, 02:38:39 PM
What about folks who were working from home before the pandemic?
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: zahc on November 13, 2020, 03:13:31 PM
People working from home should get a tax credit for not clogging the roads. A quick Google suggests that some countries already have tax credits for home workers
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: HankB on November 13, 2020, 07:28:36 PM
What about folks who were working from home before the pandemic?
Retroactive taxes.

And remember - if you're a homeowner, you're not paying rent. The money you save may eventually be considered to be imputed income and may in the future be taxed. (I actually heard this was considered a few decades back.)
Title: Re: Want to work from home post pandemic?
Post by: cordex on November 14, 2020, 03:32:31 AM
And remember - if you're a homeowner, you're not paying rent. The money you save may eventually be considered to be imputed income and may in the future be taxed. (I actually heard this was considered a few decades back.)
I pay rent to the government.
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