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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Truec on 20 Sep 2016, 14:06 ---Okay, I have a wild and bizarre theory that is going to turn the way we're looking at this on it's head.
Maybe it actually is exactly what it looks like. An AI cop is making contact with and leaning on a low level employee in an illegal but tolerated shady area to let her know if anything worse starts happening. No secret tests of character or impending crackdown required.
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It's a safe bet than we haven't seen the last of purple gumshoe cop; see the concept of Chekhov's Gun. Perhaps our picture of Corpse Witch is about to take a turn for the worse.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: JimC on 20 Sep 2016, 13:44 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 20 Sep 2016, 11:18 ---Further, because it's illegal, there's no way to legally deal with taxing the resulting income,
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I don't know about the US, but in the UK when I was working in the cash economy, I simply declared the income on my tax return and paid tax on it as normal. The sources of the income were pretty vaguely listed, and no doubt if the tax man had decided to do a full investigation into my affairs they'd have been seeking a lot of clarification, but fundamentally, here at least, they like to make it easy for you to pay tax, and if you're obviously not living a megabucks lifestyle why should they bother to look hard at you when there are so many better targets? Of course many people working in the cash economy don't pay tax, in the hope they won't get caught, but that's a choice.
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If any substantial portion of Faye's income is from a single source, that source will be expected to file a form 1099 declaring the income. Faye will need to file Schedules C and SE declaring her freelance business income, and paying a pretty large portion as self-employment tax (in lieu of Social Security tax). She'll also be expected to file quarterly estimated taxes including enough to cover most of her upcoming tax liability for both state and local taxes.
If there's no matching 1099's from the skate park, it'll raise red flags with both the IRS and the Drug Enforcement Administration. But I can't imagine the skate park filing the 1099 given the income is from illegal activity. So no, I don't think Faye is paying taxes.
retrosteve:
Screw the legal advice. There's no legal advice that could help Faye now.
She should go over their heads. Nuclear option. Time to have a chat with Hanner's mom Beatrice.
Kugai:
Something definitely smells here, and it ain't the Pie.
Is it cold in here?:
Where "nuclear option" might not be a metaphor.
Hannermom may not remember Faye fondly, though.
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