Not sure exactly who 'they' are, bean counters or their bosses and which ones.

Yep C-19 continues to put holes in most everyone's budgets, and surely those trying to stem the fiscal bleeding will prepare surprises for everyone in current and future tax bills and price increases all over the place from big and small business to substack folks. I guess, good luck to whoever is going to win that battle, probably no-one the way this pandemic is going, in spite of all the 'normal' cheerleading going on and on, currently.