From the mouths of babes

[SueEllen]

Asking minors to make those distinctions and report them is most definitely unsavoury, but of course any person has a responsibility to report when they see a law broken. I'm not sure I want an 11 year old encouraged to do it for taxation though.

Minors don't tend to have the capacity to understand grey areas of morality.*
In this case the difference between evasion and avoidance.

So they are very good at reporting "wrong doings" to authority.

So if you happened to pay your Polish cleaner in cash, even if the cleaner was doing everything legit because they actually have a well-run cleaning company with lots of local clients, the kid would report the transaction as being "wrong" even when it's not.

*The random ones who do are little tulips.

[Sysman]

In my school we were taught to tell your school's NKVD officer if your parents told something bad about the Govt.

And how do you feel about it when the country where you applied for and got citizenship adopts a similar policy?

Pretty gutted I would think.

( on your behalf)

[vetran]

Minors don't tend to have the capacity to understand grey areas of morality.*
In this case the difference between evasion and avoidance.

So they are very good at reporting "wrong doings" to authority.

So if you happened to pay your Polish cleaner in cash, even if the cleaner was doing everything legit because they actually have a well-run cleaning company with lots of local clients, the kid would report the transaction as being "wrong" even when it's not.

*The random ones who do are little tulips.

precisely. Anyone who speaks yiddish dragged away in the night.

[Scoobos]

And how do you feel about it when the country where you applied for and got citizenship adopts a similar policy?

Pretty gutted I would think.

( on your behalf)

I think grassing on cash in hand payments doesn't really equate to having a secret security force like the NKVD.

[SimonMac]

Stuff the kids, I will be calling hector if I know someone is on the fiddle!

I am "friends" on facebook with someone who bakes cakes, makes wedding invites and a variety of other small side lines, I am sure the tax man knows nothing of those earnings

[vetran]

a thin line.

The History Place - Hitler Youth: Prelude to War 1933-1939

[OwlHoot]

I am "friends" on facebook with someone who bakes cakes, makes wedding invites and a variety of other small side lines, I am sure the tax man knows nothing of those earnings

Are they a pensioner? That makes it even worse - They should be more than capable of surviving on their state pension!

[shaunbhoy]

I am teaching my kids to find as many ways as legally possible to minimise their contributions.

Of course you are, you tax-dodging scumbag. The apples never fall far from the tree eh?