She DOES have a pretty low profile, you're right. I haven't seen her in much.

Well, she has a long resume. She just doesn't parade her life around much.

In GoldenEye she played a really crappy Russian lounge singer. It was quite funny.

Does this sound crazy to anyone else?

Yes.

I mean, we're no longer allowed to have food at most meetings either, but that's just because our entertainment budget was slashed.

I mean, we're no longer allowed to have food at most meetings either, but that's just because our entertainment budget was slashed.

I think someone just got mixed up as to why they couldn't have food. I just read the IRS publication on fringe benefits, and it pretty clearly states that occasional "meals" were not taxable, however if the meal was provided to you daily (like a restaurant that sits everyone down to a meal) it is.

Someone told my boss that the university is no longer allowed to provide food for meetings that involve staff, because the food is a taxable benefit for the employee and would have to be noted in our paycheck. Does this sound crazy to anyone else? (I also just came from a meeting that had food)

If you expense meals that's generally counted towards your taxable income. But I've never heard of that applying to something like that.

Someone told my boss that the university is no longer allowed to provide food for meetings that involve staff, because the food is a taxable benefit for the employee and would have to be noted in our paycheck. Does this sound crazy to anyone else?

The tax stuff sounds crazy, but we're not allowed to have any catering unless there's at least one person attending from outside gov't.

This is why pregnant women should not go grocery shopping hungry - my lunch today is Stouffer's mac & cheese and chocolate pudding. And I bought some hummus and bagel chips and fruit salad for later.

My former housemate has free food available to him everyday at the office. I highly doubt he is taxed on it.

Also, how would you even do that? What about someone that didn't take food? Or someone that took more than average? That sounds like an accounting nightmare. Unless it's like that bogus Internet tax in NY that just assumed you did x amount of ordering online so they charged sales tax on it.

Someone told my boss that the university is no longer allowed to provide food for meetings that involve staff, because the food is a taxable benefit for the employee and would have to be noted in our paycheck. Does this sound crazy to anyone else? (I also just came from a meeting that had food

Sound crazy. Yet also the same thing that UCLA told us. Also the reason they couldn't pay for parking (we were off-site employees required to go with teachers to onsite meetings once a month and teachers got their parking paid, but not us).

eta: But when we had food at the meetings, everyone ate and it didn't matter. It was actual meals, like lunch that were the problem. They gave us food vouchers instead and gave an extra to one teacher who then gave it to the coach. It was insane.

The tax stuff sounds crazy, but we're not allowed to have any catering unless there's at least one person attending from outside gov't.

Yeah, I was going to say government money can't be used for food at internal meetings, but not because it's a benefit.

If two employers stated the same tax thing about the same time could be a new tax decision.

Did you know that if you get FF miles from employer-paid travel it used to be a taxable benefit? But no one ever paid taxes on it, so the IRS made a special ruling making it non-taxable.