Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf...
by powerapple on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:17AM
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Is it confirmed that it is "free" consulting service? The article didn't mention anything about it.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf...
by nerdawson on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:55AM
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> Later, people inside the company reported that Tesla engineers were in fact reviewing the code.
There’s very little here to make any kind of judgement from.
Perhaps they were being paid for some private work outside of their employment. Maybe there’s some kind of arrangement in place to cover the costs of their time. From the outside we simply don’t know.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf...
by bakuninsbart on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:57AM
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Quite sure this is just false, as I've done this in some contexts before, would be great to hear from an eypert. - Consulting pro bono, even during hours on another company should generally be fine, it might just make it more likely to be tax audited.
Musk (who is definitely the beneficial owner of Twitter and probably of Tesla too) is providing "free" consulting service of Tesla employees for Twitter -> without an invoice and without tax. (or maybe there will be an invoice?)
In EU that should be taxed (and also invoiced) - with similar prices as a consulting provided by a consulting company that does code reviews. The tax office is interested most in the missing tax of course.