> It makes more sense to provide a tax deduction or credit to employee directly. I, as a taxpayer, don't quite fancy having to pay for Amazon's 300k remote emp

> It makes more sense to provide a tax deduction or credit to employee directly. I, as a taxpayer, don't quite fancy having to pay for Amazon's 300k remote employees home-office while the company they work for doesn't pay any tax. > How do we draw the line? The line is already drawn, as an employer you are legally required to pay for the tools your employees need to do their work. So if the employee is a developer, that would be a laptop for example. Coffee and tea is not deemed necessary, so you don't have to pay for it. In my opinion, a proper space to work is definitly a requirement and should be added to that list for remote workers. As well as a microphone and probably webcam at a minimum. Asking taxpayers to pay for this instead of businesses makes 0 sense (although it's already like that in some juridictions). Edit: I forgot to add that employers that will be switching to remote-first for the long term are the one that will save money on rent, while their employees will have a higher rent on average. So it does make quite a lot of sense for employer to pay and keep the balance in that scenario.