Posted on 01/08/2012 2:11:45 PM PST by La Enchiladita
SACRAMENTO -- The state of California targets an "underground economy." Agencies are going after businesses that pay employees in cash, avoiding workers compensation insurance and withholding taxes. The state's going high-tech to crack down on those employers.
The Contractors State License Board of California has videotaped numerous sting operations where they catch businesses operating without a license and hiring workers under the table -- meaning those businesses aren't paying payroll taxes, workers compensation insurance or contributing to unemployment benefits like legitimate businesses, and pocketing that money instead.
California's underground economy, which includes the landscaping, restaurant, farming and construction industries, is estimated to cost the state $7 billion per year in lost revenue.
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This also highlights the high cost of illegals to our state's economy, and that is just $7 billion in the employment sector. How much are they costing in the education and healthcare sector?
They are going to have to close down every family run Asian and Mexican restaurant in the state. All the kids work for free off the books and all of it gets recycled back into the family pot, and I’m sure they don’t pay for the kids social security either. It is all off the books. For all I know, it is legal not to pay your kids for working in the family restaurant. Basically they become unpaid volunteers and I doubt that is illegal. But the point is, all of the cooks and servers and help who would be paying taxes into the state, when the family runs the restaurant, there is nothing buy the business paying taxes, as all the family are off the books.
Great. Start with Algore and his visits to “massage parlors”.
A growing underground economy is a sure sign that government has become oppressive to those that employ others.
California likes to flatter itself. People move out of California to avoid the income tax, and the government’s response is to tax them anyway on the theory that no one would ever want to move out of the State, so they must be faking it to avoid taxes.
Now companies go belly up, yet the State of California will come after their former owners on the theory that they must still be in business, but not paying their taxes.
My suggestion is don’t make the mistake of going to California in the first place. Stay as far away as possible.
if a non-lib was in the WH... they would be claiming racism instead of charging after more tax money
Good news for Nevada, Arizona and Oregon.
About twenty years too late, the Mexicans have infiltrated most of the busniesses by now.
This is hilarious. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and how it squares with Mexifornia’s policy of coddling illegal aliens.
Half the contractors in CA are actually employees and were dumped as employees simply so the employers could avoid workers compensation insurance.
Where I am from it's called "biting the hand that feeds you".
As long as the family workers are working for free, there is no taxes or social security owed.
AMEN BROTHER
When it's all over said and done, California will be the employment haven for idiots, the productive ones will be looooong gone.
bttt
The underground economy is largely a reflection of massive immigration from corrupt, backwards countries since the Dems changed the law in 1965.
Government as racketeer.
I’m sure that your statement has a good deal of truth in it. However, the alien invasion is also a government default.
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