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>- situations where remote workers are domiciled in a different location from where they were hired AND they didn't tell HR (this leaves companies legally liabl

>- situations where remote workers are domiciled in a different location from where they were hired AND they didn't tell HR (this leaves companies legally liable for various tax, business incorporation, and safety regulations) This right here is entirely a result of government leveraging employers as a social control mechanism, that hitherto hasn't been so much of an issue; but with things like the Internet and computers, has now become highly disruptive to comply with. The answer to "who gets the tax revenue?" has previously been "the jurisdiction of record for the employee". Anything more fine grained than that starts to become indistinguishable from serfdom, and reels of government overreach.

alephnerd 2y ago
> This right here is entirely a result of government leveraging employers as a social control mechanism Not everything is a conspiracy. I like using roads, my local library, my public schools, and my local park. The issue is if my employer thinks I'm domiciled in Texas but I am actually working from Portugal, then my employer is paying taxes to Texas but not Portugal. This pisses off Portugal as there is basically an additional person who's using public services but not paying for them (income and corporate taxes make the majority of tax revenue).