Outstanding New Academic Article on Taxing FF Benefits
Jun 18, 2015, 7:48 pm
#46
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 14
Politicians, Congressmen, Senators are among the biggest benefactors from miles gained from employment related travel. Not to mention high level bureaucrats in government. So I think it's very unlikely that the politicians will vote to tax themselves on miles and other fringe benefits earned from travel.
Nearly everyone is aligned in not wanting benefits to be taxed.
1. Employers/Businesses don't want the reporting/accounting hassle
2. Airlines want to keep the corruptible power that points have on convincing the booker to choose them over the cheapest offering. Especially for business customers who usually aren't spending their own money. They don't want taxes or reporting getting in the way of that.
3. Politicians, as mentioned, are happy to keep the benefit they are getting
4. Joe public generally doesn't want to pay tax on anything
Nearly everyone is aligned in not wanting benefits to be taxed.
1. Employers/Businesses don't want the reporting/accounting hassle
2. Airlines want to keep the corruptible power that points have on convincing the booker to choose them over the cheapest offering. Especially for business customers who usually aren't spending their own money. They don't want taxes or reporting getting in the way of that.
3. Politicians, as mentioned, are happy to keep the benefit they are getting
4. Joe public generally doesn't want to pay tax on anything
