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
Famous quotes containing the word reasons:
“Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“As if her velvet helmet high
Did turret rationality.
She fans her wing up to the winde
As if her Pettycoate were lin’de
With reasons fleece, and hoises saile
And humming flies in thankfull gaile”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)
“There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one—you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)