It seems to me that people (read: the government) think that the worse thing you can ever do is to misuse welfare benefits (e.g. staying home from work even though you're not that sick or getting payments for caring for a sick child in the home even though the parent is the one sick as it pays better) while to cheat the system by not declaring (paying) taxes on labour and services (e.g. building work or cleaning services in your home) is permissable and in fact quite understandable and normal*.
But isn't the latter as bad since both scenarios in effect mean that you cheat the taxpayer? Either by trying to milk the system or avoiding to pay taxes you are supposed to pay.
* Especially among the centre-right government ministers.
One guess would be that the former probably does not effect the centre-right government ministers as much since their undeclared nanny stays home and looks after thier children when they are sick...
ReplyDeleteGood point! Arghh! All of it makes me angry!
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