More Companies Are Paying Employees in Bitcoin
Buying bitcoin from exchanges can involve lots of hoop-jumping, as customers navigate complex and tedious registration and transaction processes. Some people are now cutting through the whole tangled mess, and having their employers pay them in bitcoin directly. Canadian firm Wagepoint has been helping companies do this north of the border. Wagepoint, a startup based in Waterloo and Nova Scotia, Canada, offers Canadian and US companies an easy way to process payroll online. The firm handles payroll deductions for tax purposes and files all the necessary paperwork electronically. It has....
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GSM Solutions' Managing Director Alan Donohoe has responded to our email, explaining that the employees who are receiving part of their pay in bitcoin work in the head office: "We believed it best to start with our head office where we have five employees who work with bitcoin on a daily basis, so they understood the importance of this step in the evolution of bitcoin in Ireland." He adds that: "Paying our staff in bitcoin is another step in the direction of helping to extend the bitcoin ecosystem into our economy." An Irish company has begun paying its employees' salaries in bitcoin.....
There is a growing number of requests for Canadian employees to have their salaries paid in Bitcoin. CBC News reports that Canada employees are increasing the requests to be paid in bitcoin. Some companies have already proposed this option to their workers. According to Canadian tax laws, salaries received in Bitcoin are viewed as barter income and taxed based on the equivalent in Canadian dollars. A small but growing and surprising number of workers are rejecting Canadian dollar salaries for bitcoin, according to a Waterloo, Ont., payroll firm. Noel Carisse, a Canada Revenue Agency....
Companies in the United States can now automatically pay their employees in bitcoin. Wagepoint, the Canadian payroll service that works with companies to facilitate paying employee paychecks in bitcoin, announced Monday that they have expanded their bitcoin payroll services to the United States and can accommodate small and medium-sized businesses in all 50 states. The magic is done through the Wagepoint online app, which can "handle direct deposits, government remittances / reporting and all year-end reporting for both salaried and hourly employees. Shrad Rao, CEO of Wagepoint, told CCN....
An increasing number of employees are opting to receive payments via Bitcoin. According to a Waterloo payroll firm, ten firms have signed up for their salary to be paid in Bitcoin. The CEO of Wagepoint, Shrad Rao, said the firm added the option in November of last year and was not expecting very many people to sign up. Not only have a surprising number of employees signed up for Bitcoin payments, but customers have come to Wagepoint specifically because of their Bitcoin integration. What's interesting is that we've actually had customers come to us because of the (Bitcoin) integration,....