Reply to: Is it morally wrong to accept or do cash in hand work?

[vetran]

Many MPs can't even tell if they are illegals

Attorney General Baroness Scotland: illegal immigrant cleaner arrested

Attorney General Baroness Scotland: illegal immigrant cleaner arrested - Telegraph

Illegal immigrant cleaner claims Baroness Scotland 'never' asked for proof of immigration status | Mail Online

not that she paid full whack!

Attorney-General Baroness Scotland fined £5,000 for hiring illegal worker | Metro.co.uk


and the world's largest security company wasn't too sure

London 2012 Olympics security crisis: Cameron vows to 'go after' G4S over costs | Mail Online

[NotAllThere]

We pay our cleaners with cash. What are we supposed to do? Put them on PAYE?...

That's the way it works in Switzerland - unless you're registered self-employed. There's plenty of cash-in-hand workers of course, but the risk is on both the worker and the hirer. If they're not registered, you are responsible for their tax and insurance.

[Cliphead]

Tax cheat!!! Tax cheat!!! Burn Him!!!!

AtW

When I was playing music full time I used to busk as a way of rehearsing new tunes, I could do that at home or on the street earning a very good rate. Come to think of it my hourly rate in those days was similar to the first lucrative contract roles I had.

Anyways, most of the other guys busking were on the dole so I'm playing to a crowd when this weedy wee guy with an HMRC leather sachel pushes to the front, produces a camera and takes a photo then sprints off up the street. Obviously trying to catch out the buskers signing on by circulating pics of buskers around the dole offices, haven't seen anyone so nervous and talking to the other guys over the weeks they all had a similar experience but were never pulled up, probably camera shake

[MarillionFan]

Same here as well as the gardener, the window cleaner, taxi drivers...

I don't care what they do with the money I give them, I have an accountant to sort out my finances and that means I can sleep at night. Even the money I make from music has to be declared although I've never been pulled up about all the dosh I made busking in Sauchiehall Street.

Tax cheat!!! Tax cheat!!! Burn Him!!!!

AtW

[Cliphead]

We pay our cleaners with cash. What are we supposed to do? Put them on PAYE?

What an utter numpty.

Same here as well as the gardener, the window cleaner, taxi drivers...

I don't care what they do with the money I give them, I have an accountant to sort out my finances and that means I can sleep at night. Even the money I make from music has to be declared although I've never been pulled up about all the dosh I made busking in Sauchiehall Street.

[Alf W]

We pay our cleaners with cash. What are we supposed to do? Put them on PAYE?

What an utter numpty.

[cojak]

Is it morally (or indeed legally) wrong to buy something you know or at least reasonably suspect is stolen? After all, it's none of your business how the seller came by the goods.

But the goods have to be stolen first. At the point where I hand him the money everything is legal. Is Her Majesty's currency now viewed in the same light at hooky tobacco and drugs??

[Paddy]

Love you long time honey. That will be £50.

Can I pay by cheque and have a VAT receipt?

[vetran]

Apparently it's quite difficult to draft tax law so that it doesn't fall foul of laws against demanding money with menaces.

explains why HMRC have got so aggressive, New Lie were all lawyers who thought they knew what they were doing, I look forward to the prosecution.

[DodgyAgent]

She HUGELY simplified the tax system - .

God Bless er then - sorry Maggie for doubting you

[NotAllThere]

Apparently it's quite difficult to draft tax law so that it doesn't fall foul of laws against demanding money with menaces.

[Mich the Tester]

Do 2 morally wrongs make a morally right?

Only if you can invoice for both of them.

[Robinho]

Yes it is but then again, taxation is morally wrong as it is basic theft.

Do 2 morally wrongs make a morally right?

[NotAllThere]

A quick search found an ebay thread on this:

"Re...Depending on the value of the property received, receiving-stolen-property is either a misdemeanor or a felony..."

Yank law then.

[darmstadt]

Gauke really ought to look before he leaps, he and his wife have a bit of experience in tax avoidance