so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work? What happens if you can't afford that tax then?
This feels very wrong - taxing someone for a potential benefit when it is not proven that such benefit exists.
The vast majority of people prefer to also use the car privately, and pay the tax (which is reasonable, if taxation is reasonable).
Cars that keep rotating between drivers are not subject to that (but exact record keeping of driver and trip required to avoid tax)
Similarly, employer provided phone subscription is assumed to be partly private use (50% of monthly subscription cost considered a a taxable benefit iirc), not sure what hoops you need to jump through to prove it is not private use at all. (But phone plans are cheap - excellent domestic plans are $10 or so)
Obviously this only happens when the equipment you get can plausibly be used for personal purposes. Such as a company car.
> What happens if you can't afford that tax then?
That's extremely unlikely.
I think you need to specify "here" to get an answer to that question.
That has nothing to do with putting private email in a private folder on the company mail server, near as I can tell, and nothing in that statement would address the statement about companies monitoring use of company equipment and network etc.
Since they’d need to know even in the private email case what they folder names were, for instance, to know there even WAS private email.
For the employer to open/read such communication would be highly illegal, akin to opening others private snail mail.
I do believe that this also extends to corporate issued phones and computers. Especially since you’re automatically taxed for “private use” of such equipment when assigned.