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by mandlar 3613 days ago
How are they going to verify your current salary? Do companies really go out of their way to do that?
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They can just ask for a paystub.
Not anymore!
At least, not in Massachusetts.
I got excited about this, as I live in MA and seriously considering a change, until I read the part that it doesn't go into effect until July 2018.
In countries where the employer does the tax for the employee, then the employer will see how much tax has been paid earlier in the year. They can deduce salary from that.