Reasons
Reasons one may work or pay a worker cash-in-hand include:
- Avoidance of wage garnishment or payment of child support or alimony
- Cheaper labor or avoidance of minimum wage laws
- Convenience for both parties
- Elimination of paperwork, bookkeeping, and regulation compliance
- Reduced/eliminated expenses or need for bookkeepers, human resource specialists, lawyers, accountants, payroll services, insurance agents and other employment specialists
- Not having to check or show a criminal record
- Protestation of actions or policies of the governing authorities (see agorism)
- Evasion of insurance requirements
- Flexibility in hiring short-term employees without excessive overhead or paperwork
- Avoidance of exceeding allowable income by a person receiving certain benefits, such as unemployment, disability, or public assistance
- Fugitive, Illegal Immigration, Organized Crime
- Tax evasion, tax resistance, social security evasion
- The lack of minimum wage opens up many employment opportunities under the table, thus decreasing academic qualification, making it easier for the employee to get those jobs.
- Can hire qualified but disliked ethnic people, or blacklisted people (but have done no crime) and can work normally if no social discrimination exists.
Read more about this topic: Unreported Employment
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