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>the big companies with lobbying powers will lobby for tax code and IP law changes to streamline the process. There is literally no benefit to a given state, o
by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>the big companies with lobbying powers will lobby for tax code and IP law changes to streamline the process.
There is literally no benefit to a given state, or country, to make it easier for jobs to leave their borders.
If we see a larger push by tech firms to let people work remotely, I personally believe we'll see government intervention in the name of the above. I also believe that, in the face of such a push, tech workers should seriously consider unionizing.
- jedberg 6y ago> There is literally no benefit to a given state, or country, to make it easier for jobs to leave their borders. Of course not. But there is benefit for making it easier for people to live within those borders and pay taxes within those borders while working for a foreign company. What if the states stopped requiring businesses to file taxes on their employee's behalf? What if the feds set up a system where I just report my employee's tax ID and how much they made to the Feds, and then the Feds share that with the states and each entity just sends a bill to the employee or to the business owner? What if the feds pass some laws about autofiling of taxes. I just submit my employee's pay and benefits to a national register, maybe send some default amount of money, and everything else is taken care of for me, and they send me a refund if I overpay or send the employee a bill if I underpay? There are lots of ways to streamline the system without losing tax revenue. Most of them involve making the government responsible for collecting taxes instead of businesses.