If company can pick arbitrary locations around the world to be their HQ, or Trump can use Mar-a-Lago as his residence, then so too can every other citizen following the law and paying their taxes.
> every other citizen following the law
For criminal fraud to happen, there has to be a defrauded party. If I follow my local tax laws and negotiate a better salary with a corporation based on Location A, while potentially living elsewhere at Location B/C/D for prolong periods of time with lower costs of living, that is not fraud.
Two parties entered a contract with the understand you would live in location A if you don't that's fraud objectively.
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-contr...
https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/business-laws-and-regu...
https://www.upcounsel.com/intent-to-deceive-contract-law#:~:....
If you follow whatever local and state laws apply to your situation, you're perfectly in your right.
The topic is whether a global corporation with access to a global workforce should be allowed arbitrary salary negation privileges because of the circumstances of a candidates geographical circumstances, while robbing the candidate of the same privilege.
Just sounds like another way to exploit labor at a time of record profit windfalls for corporations.
Someday if most employers switch to remote-first, this won’t matter and salaries will be equal everywhere (a lot lower than we’ve seen in tight labor markets, and probably the first world in general).
A company telling me my worth is based on where I live at that exact moment definitely feels like wrongful deception intended for financial gain.