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Originally Posted by Noah930
It might be a small thing--and I'm not saying you're some gawdawful criminal--but by hiring a day laborer you ARE cheating the system. It's a little white lie. And I'm not saying I'm some moralistic super dude who wouldn't do the same thing. But there's a reason why Jose can/will do the job for $x a day, whereas a "real" licensed, insured, and tax-paying company charges a lot more.
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Who's cheating the system?? VaStreve is going to hire someone do do some work - so what? The person being hired is cheating the system by offering to do a job and not reporting the income and paying taxes. That is if that is the case at all - you are making an asumption here.
There are thousands of people paying their gardeners to do a job but have nothing to do with the gardeners personal tax liability.
I'm not sure of the exact tax rules but I beleive VaSteve has absolutely no obligation to do anything unless he pays this guy more than $7k which would then require the worker to be 1099'd.