Seems like people are pretending there is an issue here so that the city can get their cut.
Random dinner parties that cost money by strangers and people know exactly what they are getting into. No reports of problems, except the govt wants its cut, you know, like the mob, but using laws and guns in stead of just guns. They want dinner parties to get health inspections.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/ ... r-parties/
I can only assume NY has solved all its homeless, hungry, race and gun issues to have any staff or funding to focus on this.
This made me think. Many here have likely gone to someone's house for dinner and brought a dish, or even, gasp, have gone to a pot luck. As you know everything has value. If I give something to an employee, I need to figure out its value and tax them based on this (and pay unemployment, workman's comp and potentially health insurance)
Now the reason you bring something to the dinner party, in part or full, is to repay the owner for the effort and expense of hosting the party. To make it feel more even, like any trade. Thus you are compensating them, not only are they now a restaurant, but they are a business with tax obligations from the night.
Just more BS that is only acceptable because they have not enforced it yet. By the letter of the law, in NY, and many other places that have food police, it is illegal to bring a dish to a dinner party without getting health inspection, paying all appropriate taxes, getting all appropriate insurances, filing employment paperwork, etc. pretty much the 50 things you have to do to open any small business (51 next month). Again, only reason it is not a big deal it that they don't enforce it, like the $50 a day fine we have locally for peeling paint on your house or owning the wrong trash can, no issue only because no one has decided to enforce it ...yet. Well someone in NYC govt could not get into one of these dinners and ..... they need to be stopped.
Just keep this in mind as you feel law abiding, whenever you trade or give, there is a govt consequence by law. You cannot even legally have a dinner party and share the expense without govt permission or sneaking it as you all likely do now. You could even have a big christmas with your kids and end up with regulatory or tax consequences, you are just evading them.
