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Google tells employees they can’t expense food when working from home
- lazyload 6y agoSeems about par for the course. I'm sure a lot of policy would have to be enacted to allow something like that, and my company (also a large tech company) announced something similar not too long ago.
- three_seagrass 6y agoThis makes sense because the IRS has been coming after Facebook and Google for years to tax their free food as a form of income. https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-and-free-food-at-tech-companies-2014-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-and-free-food-at-tech-co... Expensing WFH lunches would give IRS more ammo to tie the food to taxable individual employee benefits.
- jjeaff 6y agoThe recent tax law changes completely disallow the expensing of on site meals provided to employees. It has already started phasing out and might be fully phased out by 2021 if I remember correctly. So the IRS doesn't have to fight that anymore. So they can still provide it to employees, but if they want the tax deduction, they will have to itemize it on employee compensation, which will cause them to pay taxes on it as income.
- kungato 6y agoYeah, so? No one expensed food when doing a work from home day before covid19. What's next? Expensing your house for staying there?
- lovich 6y agoI'm fairly certain you can at least get a tax write off of your home office if its dedicated to work
- jrm2k6 6y agoIsn't it only if no other location to work from is available to you as an employee?
- spa3thyb 6y agoI'd think this is for a subset of employees who confused free cafeteria food with an entitlement to never pay for food during work hours.
- CHB0403085482 6y agoWell, you can't expense your car depreciation/usage when you commute to work. Right?