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  • He's getting down voted because most people in this thread are foaming at the mouth.

    I hate trump as much as the next guy. What this guy did, tho, is currently against the law. Should the law be changed? Should he have gone through a whistle blower process? Questions to be asked.

    But as of today, you can't purposely get a job at the IRS to leak information that the IRS wasn't ready/allowed to release. Full stop.

    The folks arguing here that he should be pardoned or who are enraged that he is even being charged are presenting childish arguments. There's a theme on Lemmy that I've noticed. Tribalism is strong as fuck.

  • This has to have been taken out of context....

    “No. We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country,” Haley said in response.

    Well shit. At least she's sticking to her guns....

    “I know, I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then,” Haley said.

    ...so she's an idiot.

  • I'm no law expert, but I have dealt with POS and retailers, and their tax people. My understanding is that you always report the loading of a gift card as a liability. It may be categorized as a different liability because you don't necessarily owe that money back. As in, most gift cards are non refundable.

    When the holder of the gift card redeems it for products, the balanced used gets deducted from your liability and is added to revenue.

    If Starbucks were straight reporting it as revenue with no explanation, I can see that being scrutinized. But if they are reporting it as potential revenue, then that's up to shareholders to weed through that and make investments based on that.

    I'm not understanding the illegality here.

  • Thank you for the citation and explanation.

    I know I'm coming off all boot-licky, but this all seems legal. If Starbucks is disclosing the gift card amount as a potential to be moved from a liability to revenue, and if this is legal in tax laws, then this lawsuit is overreach and makes it seem like they're just looking for a payout.

    It's been pointed out already that you can use the remaining balance of a gift card to zero it out and pay whatever is left in the order with another means of payment.

    This lawsuit is describing how gift cards work. Might as well sue all merchants.