Should you pay higher taxes because you work from home?
Many people are discovering they enjoy working from home. Should they pay higher taxes if they decide to stay away from the office even after the pandemic?
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Should you pay higher taxes because you work from home?
Many people are discovering they enjoy working from home. Should they pay higher taxes if they decide to stay away from the office even after the pandemic?
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Should you pay higher taxes because you work from home?
Published Nov. 12, 2020 11:14 a.m. ETBy CNN
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Many people are discovering they enjoy working from home. Should they pay higher taxes if they decide to stay away from the office even after the pandemic?
The idea was floated this week by a research team at Deutsche Bank. It proposed a tax on remote workers once the coronavirus is brought under control to support the economic recovery and subsidize the wages of people in low-paid jobs who can't choose their place of work.
"The sudden shift to [work from home] means that, for the first time in history, a big chunk of people have disconnected themselves from the face-to-face world yet are still leading a full economic life," thematic research analyst Luke Templeman said in a new report. "That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits."
A Deutsche Bank survey found that after the COVID-19 crisis has passed, 60% of people who started working from home during the pandemic want to continue doing so for two or more days a week. For them, the financial benefits of not commuting, buying lunch or dressing for the office, plus the flexibility and convenience, outweigh the stress of having to juggle family and work or cope with a makeshift desk
