Well, you WERE talking about the USA earlier. But my point still stand. I am not so sure how easy it was in UK, but i know of indie game dev in German who says its easy to report taxes as independent entity.

You can try to twist the talking point however you want, but this ia a problem you can easily solve if you want to solve it.

Besides small sites does not even generate enough traffics/ revenue/profits on the individual basis to even worth caring about ( i mean if you want to be principled and nickle and dime people for 5 bucks a year, sure??? I guess)

Don't nobody want that white people fried chicken anyway.

You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude.

Good thing I wasn't talking about suits in that example because it was all women. You didn't even read the comment before responding.

Most deliveries are made by road, emergency vehicles travel on the road, busses travel on the road. As much as people may not like it, for the time being roads are essential infrastructure.

Whilst it may be a fact that more men drive than women the main reason for treating roads is to keep essential services operational. In many areas only major roads and key transport routes are treated with the estate roads being left untreated.

In our area they treat the main roads first and then move onto the major bus routes, everything else is left untreated and footpaths are never touched. I think that keeping main transport, and in particular public transport routes open makes sense.

A cardigan still isn't nearly as warm as a full suit.

Well, consider this. The dress code for men is a full suit. What falls into the dress code for women that's ever warmer than that? Women are expected to dress in ways that aren't as warm. The dress codes are what's ridiculous.

Then why is the UK behind on it, when it’s a country that normally makes taxes easy? How did this story happen in the first place?

Oh right you just wanted to circlejerk about USA bad, but catching tax cheats is bad too, but only if you like them, and of course the tax system should have been set up to catch them faster 🙄 Ah, mental gymnastics.

Also, not everyone who cams does it through a big central employer/site. But everyone seems to always assume it’s some easily taxable entity like that.

Did it work?

Camming self employment is the easiest one to regulate since there'a only like max 5 of the biggest camsites out there or OF. You just have to force those sites/parent company to automatically link the income to the individuals' tax/income data.

This also works similarly to gig drivers like UBER/GRAB. make it so that the parent company reports the number.

The problem is always that USA is way behind on tax reporting online infrastructure/platform where income data is aggregated.

The kind of self-employment that is difficult to track the total income is that if you are running your own business as an employer, or if you are small-medium sized landlords.

It’s called systemic racism for a reason right? Get to do racist things and then say “oh no it’s not racist, it’s just that’s what the system says is best. We’re just trying to be efficient guys! Honest!”

No tax system automatically finds all self employment income like camming and collects the expenses for you. Even in countries with user-friendly tax system, there’s some work to do for the taxpayer in those cases. Hence this story about the UK! (Which is one of the user-friendly systems you probably consider fixed!)

It’s completely fair to criticize the US for requiring more scavenger hunt than necessary, but some forms of income inherently require some effort to file and may be missed if not reported by others. Camming self-employment is one of them.

False. In San Diego and Inperial Counties I have seen them spray some sort of liquid deicer. May or may not be salt, but when it dries it certainly looks like salt.

Maybe fix your tax system lmao. You paid your tax so that you had to get your fellow citizens to report on each other for tax irregularities.

And plus there's a huge assumption that online personalities aren't paying their taxes which we simply don't know if its true or otherwise.

And lol, i gladly pay my tax since its all automated and hassle free. Pay with just a click on the tax website tyvm.

No shit nobody likes being investigated for tax evasion! That’s kind of an obvious point to make! But our tax system depends on unreported income getting called out somehow. And like I said in the other comment, if an entire source of income is allegedly not being reported at all, that’s trivial for the IRS to rule out if the person is filing it somehow.

Yes, congrats, welcome to the world of not liking to pay taxes, hope you enjoy your first job!

Well yeah, but the point is would you appreviate random people tipping the taxmen randomly in hope of catching you for tax evasion?

Tax evasion is bad, but this feels more like Salem witch hunt to me.

Making money in a way that doesn’t automatically get get tracked for taxes then. 🙄

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?? If you are working somewhere the customer literally sees you making money. Even if you are not customer facing, anyone can literally assume you are earning money at your place of employment.

Because they don’t observe me making money.

You dont have randoms on the street or your customers reporting you for your tax details though

If they’re not cheating on their taxes, it’s pretty easy to rule them out without them knowing. “Oh yep, that’s this person. Oh, yep, self employment income from modeling on their last 1040, probably not hiding anything.”

The dude is either hung like a horse or a little field mouse. Back to the fire mate, not your balls. 🔥

“No, that’s evil, when people I like have to deal with the same tax penalties as everyone else!”