Mauve Company Permits Employees to Occasionally Use the Copying Machine

question 87

True/False

Mauve Company permits employees to occasionally use the copying machine for personal purposes.The copying machine is located in the office where the higher paid executives work, so they occasionally use the machine.However, the machine is not convenient for use by the lower paid warehouse employees and, thus, they never use the copier.The use of the copy machine may not be excluded from gross income because the benefit is discriminatory.

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