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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by jimnotgym on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:01PM (#18342289)
Presumably there is a tax implication too? In the UK this would probably be a benefit-in-kind and taxed say it's market value as income.
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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by jjeaff on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:42AM (#18343589)
Yes. Same in the US. Things like private jet use are applied as income. However, I'm not sure you would have to do so at retail rates. For example, you would have to pay taxes on the cost of the private jet use. The marginal cost of something like running your personal ads on the favebook platform is so low as to probably not be considered "material" by the tax man.
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