• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    No it isn’t, it’s tax evasion. Businesses do it to get more money from lying on their taxes, not taking “dirty” illegal money and making it legal

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      6 hours ago

      That depends on if they’re reporting LESS money than they actually made, or are reporting MORE money than the shop itself actually took in.

      If everything is in cash, you can inflate it pretty easily without raising eyebrows.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, but reporting “less” is 100x more likely. And saying “everything is money laundering” is wrong, they’re messing around with taxes.