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Should Google's lavender cornbread and other employee meals be taxed?
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Aug 19, 2015
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Should Google's lavender cornbread and other employee meals be taxed?
The IRS says it's looking into taxing the meals that tech giants, such as Google and Facebook, have long promoted as perks for workers.
The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. on September 2, 2011.    AFP PHOTO/KIMIHIRO HOSHINO (Photo credit should read KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images)
The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. on September 2, 2011.
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The IRS says it's looking into taxing the meals that tech giants, such as Google and Facebook, have long promoted as perks for workers.

The IRS says it's looking into taxing the meals that tech giants, such as Google and Facebook, have long promoted as perks for workers.

The crux of the argument comes down to who really benefits from these kinds of perks more: the employer or the employee?

Victor Fleischer, a professor of corporate tax and tax law at the University of San Diego Law School, joined the show with more.​ His latest op-ed, "Stop Universities from Hoarding Cash," was published in the New York Times.