By Tom Wrobleski
Staten Island Advance, N.Y.
(TNS)
If your company stops offering free snacks and coffee in the workplace, don’t take your gripe to human resources.
President Donald Trump could be to blame.
The New York Post reported that Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” contains a provision that eliminates a longstanding deduction for meals provided by employers.
Beginning on Jan. 1, companies in the U.S. will no longer be able to deduct the cost of snacks, coffee or on-site lunches provided to workers.
Eliminating the deduction is expected to generate $32 billion in new tax revenue from employers through 2034, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
With many firms yet to reveal whether they will cut back on employee food offerings or will absorb the additional cost, the actual impact on companies is not clear.
Tech and finance firms are in particular famous for the often generous office perks that they offer to workers, including a variety of food offerings.
Google offers gourmet cafeterias, all-day meals and snack kitchens. Meta and Apple also offer free snacks and on-site meals, with Apple focusing on healthy choices.
LinkedIn offers catered meals and ships snack boxes to remote workers. Indeed provides unique, around-the-clock snack options.
In finance, JPMorgan Chase provides 24/7 “Snack Spots” and healthy options. Goldman Sachs offers stocked pantries and stipends for after-hours meals.
Restaurants under the legislation retained their ability to deduct the cost of meals provided to staff, however.
But most other employers have now lost that benefit, including hospitals, factories and office-based businesses that have in the past offered free or subsidized food in the workplace in an effort to boost morale and encourage employees to work longer hours.
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