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> Because it's not work... unless your job involves going to conferences. Right, I'm talking about professional conferences related to one's work, otherwise pr
by throwaway818283 7y ago
> Because it's not work... unless your job involves going to conferences.
Right, I'm talking about professional conferences related to one's work, otherwise presumably you'd be taking vacation days to attend them.
And what defines "work" if it's not whatever I'm getting paid for? Like, if I spent a work day sitting on my ass eating snacks and watching YouTube, that's definitely not "work" in the colloquial sense, but I doubt FTB would be happy if I tried to avoid paying taxes on my salary for that day because I wasn't "working". I'd think going to a conference is a far clearer cut case in the "work" column than that.
- gamblor956 7y agoRight, I'm also talking about professional conferences... I don't have the bandwidth to try and explain why attending a professional conference as a non-presenter isn't work but sitting all day watching Youtube at your office is for out-of-state tax purposes. I will say this: of the literally hundreds of millions of people that have attended professional conferences in CA as non-presenters, the CA FTB has never tried to tax them. If that's not sufficient evidence for you to accept what I'm saying, nothing is short of you hiring a tax lawyer to explain it to you in detail.