How to Make Meals from Office Snacks
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And good cheese is expensive in N. America.
But my guess is that if you quantified how much some of these benefits cost and allowed employees to take the money instead of the benefit, they would probably take the money.
If not, corporate taxes are less than personal (usually), so it still makes sense for the Corp to provide it even if they can’t deduct it.
(Assuming they get équivalent pricing to what consumers get (probably false)).
Which is funny, because on one hand, google pitches to their employees that all these fringe benefits are for the benefit of the employees and to make it a great place to work. But at the same time, they are certifying to the IRS that the real reason that they offer meals on campus is to keep employees there longer and working more.
Meals and some other limited fringe benefits can still be provided to employees without putting it on their w2, but the business can't deduct them. And I should clarify, I checked the statute and actually, meals provided to employees at the place of employment are now only 50% deductible and in 2025, they will not be deductible at all.
I don't see what problem the company would have with that, your coworkers might complain though.
9 years ago, in March 2000, I see 12 pages of NY Times articles in the archive.
And 26 pages (500+ links) of submissions in the past month. Note that there doesn’t seem to be a way to calculate total points, which is the real issue. It seems very clear that nytimes.com is on the front page more frequently as of late.