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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]
All good points. So is the solution to simply pay your child’s caregiver a living wage for this area? But what if she’s an immigrant who will send most of her earnings home (often to support her own biological children), no matter how much you pay her?

Or perhaps hire only an American citizen professional nanny who enjoys a “decent” standard of living with sufficient rent/ mortgage funds and health insurance?

Remember that no one gets to honor all priorities all at once. For wealthier parents, it might be the best possible foundational care regardless of the cost. However, for most parents who make the time to spend on dcum, it’s more likely the “most affordable” [/quote]

It is illegal to pay off the books.

The IRS heavily enforces this.

Penalties are large employers paying off the books.

One of adult caregivers was paying another caregiver cash for an adult caregiver job (not mine).  IRS was on them within 9 months.  Penalties were large and accrued very fast.  They tried to defend it saying it was a 1099 situation but caregiving does not qualify for 1099.

The big risks to this are to the employer.

Biden is hiring 84,000 more IRS agents. One thing they will be targeting is cash payments.[/quote]

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