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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

Are they hiring?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Next headline: "IRS Agents receive scrutiny for buying an excess of facial tissues."

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The large drums of lotion however didn't raise any suspicion.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's winter, the air is dry.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

That reminds me that I actually do need to go get more lotion.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago
[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Sweet gig if you can get it.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For some professional reason, though, right? Uh, just because!

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

2nd paragraph:

The issue … is the interpretation of a restriction on the “no tax on tips” deduction passed as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act that says that tips earned for prostitution or “pornographic activity” are not eligible.

The 3rd paragraph goes on to explain:

The legislation didn’t offer much additional guidance, and the IRS has yet to issue any statements clarifying what exactly constitutes “pornographic activity,” leaving the taxing agency in a similar boat as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when he endeavored to define “obscenity” in the 1964 case of Jacobellis v. Ohio: “I know it when I see it.”

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 week ago

I know it when I see it.

Just because. 😎

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh come on, it's just the tip!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Party of governmental efficiency!

Now I know what (who) Big Beautiful Bill was referencing

[–] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Having never used OF, I assumed it was a pay to access content model, I guess they additionally allow tipping, which isn't a surprise, I assume there's also a pay for specific content creation model. But what I don't know is if the tipping, while linked to a creator, is linked to a specific piece of content. If it isn't, wouldn't a creator with any amount of mixed content be hard to evaluate? You couldn't prove the tipping was related to an excluded category in that case.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Almost like the "Big Beautiful Bill's" language wasn't very well thought out.

I mean, why exclude this random subsection of work in the first place.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Yes, you can tip on individual posts.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OnlyFans has steadfastly maintained that it is not explicitly a pornographic site. I imagine if a ruling went out that every tipped interaction on the site was considered pornography, they would step in on behalf of the content creators to try to whittle that down to case-by-case rulings, for no other reason than PR alone.

Tipping into the silly now…

I can’t wait until someone issues a FOIA for the deliberations over whether certain things are pornographic or not.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember when OF banned porn in 2021? 😆

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

That lasted longer than I thought it would. It took what, a week for them to cave?

[–] kyonshi@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

That might take some time. And a lot of agents. To... you know... review footage. A few times a day maybe.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do I apply to the IRS? HOW DO I APPLY TO THE IRS?!

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do I have to be a U.S. citizen?

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You have to be eligible to work in the US.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Wild to see my hard-earned tax money's going to people who are paid to watch porn.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago

Hell, I'll do this for free.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Hell yes this what the Internal Revenue Service is for. Micro managing people trying to sell images of their bodies and not the Billionaires selling images of other's bodies, marketing and stuff. Let's use are resources to investigate the rain drop and not the fucking hurricane good job agents! /s

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah boss, I'm gonna need to expense these tissues and this gallon of lotion.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet the boss of those agents will be all too happy to walk back and forth between cubicles. You know, for moral support

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

But the 'm' is silent? (I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere)