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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe your Nanny is receiving subsidized housing or Medicaid and is afraid that if she reports her Nanny wages - then she will be homeless or w/o healthcare which are valid reasons to be afraid.

In order to make sure she can afford a home along w/healthcare you should pay her vacation time for sure.
Also a health insurance stipend so she can get off Medicaid and see a good doctor.[/quote]

Those aren't "valid" reasons for breaking the law.  They are valid reasons to make sure you're offering an attractive enough wage to attract a law abiding nanny.[/quote] They're valid to the person who has to choose between eating and living indoors. Or choose between seeing a doctor when they're sick and paying rent. Or choose new shoes when the old ones are worn out and paying the electric bill. Or a hundred other things rich people are fortunate enough not to have to worry about. You don't get to decide what's valid until you start protesting against lack of affordable healthcare and out of control rents and inflation.[/quote]

In that case, why shouldn't the nanny steal from grocery stores.  They need to eat.   Or borrow someone's car without permission, because they need to get somewhere and don't have a car.  Paying taxes above a certain income level is the law.   You don't get to decide that the working poor (who often get a lot back in the form of income tax credits) get to evade taxes.  Employers who do this are screwing said nanny over because they won't be eligible for unemployment, earn social security credits, or disability pay if they get hurt while working.  Not to mention they get to avoid paying employer taxes, which are substantial, which is why some people who pay under the table (aka not paying the taxes required by law) twist themselves into a pretzel trying to make excuses for why they are breaking the law.[/quote]

+1  Pay your nanny a living wage and comply with the required taxes, or put your kid in daycare if you can't do that. [/quote]

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