[telboy]

if you knew someone working every day and not earning bad money at all but he or she is not paying tax on any of it. would you report him or her or just forget it.

Have you never been payed cash and  pocketed it :

I think not

[pingu]

I would report it in an instant and I would not loose any sleep over it.

If you have nothing to hide...whats to worry about?

Dave.

[crystal.clear]

hi telboy i can honestly say i have never been paid cash and not declared it. i dont get paid much cash anyway but if i do i always put it down in my book.

[peter holley]

if you knew someone working every day and not earning bad money at all but he or she is not paying tax on any of it. would you report him or her or just forget it.

no, but i wouldnt pass the time of day with them

[Londoner]

The answer is I HAVE reported somebody like that and I would do it again. Not paying tax, possibly claiming benefit as well is stealing from me and you.

There is a sort of feeling that fiddling your tax is an acceptable crime because you are only fiddling the government but we have to pay more tax to make up for them.

No tax = scumbag.

[dai]

An old w/c told me years ago that he only ever declared two thirds of his round, a third of it didn't appear in his books. If he had twelve houses in a street, only eight of them were on his books.
Now unless the tax man was to actually follow him and note down every job, and find out all the prices, he was never going to get caught, and as far as I'm aware he never was.
I itemise all my customers and the price paid, he said there was no need to, he would just write down George street £24 Peel street £30 etc. His accountant accepted this.
There is fiddling going on, and we all know there is, massive corporations operate from offshore accounts and pay very little tax, it's wrong but it happens.
Now if anyone tells me that they have never done a one off job and forgotten to put it down, well they have got a better memory than me.

[geefree]

No tax = scumbag.

the money does go back into the economy though, so its not all bad.

[peter holley]

There is a huge difference from not declaring something like £20 pounds week and working and earning a living of £hundreds and just keeping it all.

exactly :