AIBU to not be an cash point for my boss?

[kardashianklone]

New job (in the UK). Boss not a UK national and is paid into non UK account in home currency. Boss flat out refuses to open UK bank account. Boss claims they cannot take out money from AMT using their home bank account card an Amex (which I think is not true- more likely boss doesn't want to pay transaction fees). Boss wants to PayPal me the money and for me to take out cash from my account for every transaction. This includes small things like lunches and coffees from Pret and big things like their council tax, water rates bill, electricity bill etc. So we are talking easily over a grand quite quickly. Things like household bills are very hard to pay if you don't have a UK bank account or UK registered credit or debit card and you usually have to make international wire transfers (which incur a fee) and they also don't accept Amex which is what boss have. Even buying train tickets on line is a nightmare. I think that 1. It is somewhat unethical of boss to ask me but I can't put my finger on why exactly and 2. what if I ever got audited and hmrc wants to know what this random influx of money that is not from employment is? Boss has asked me twice to do this. I have said clearly "no I don't want to do it, I feel uncomfortable ". Boss ignored me and said "it would really help me out and other people have done it for me" and did sad face and kept the pressure up. AIBU unreasonable and help me articulate why please!

Well done 👏🏻✔️

Yay! Well done!

She has found you un-push-over-able, I’m a nice bit firm way, yah hey! Boss sounds extremely self-focused to the extent that she really wouldn’t care what trouble you got into on her behalf, so bravo you for sticking up for your self. And phew, as the potential risks were just too high to mess around with.

Well done again, must have taken a lot of guts and gumption!

Well done op. If she comes back and again says the last person did this, say clearly I’m not surprised they left, they must have realised they were lucky not to have been investigated by hmrc yet.

Interesting that the 'boss' who came in, and therefore by definition has to be in the UK, and working, did not know who HMRC are.

Any seconded workers I have met have always been quite aware of the tax rules in the UK whilst they are here.

Well done OP, looks like you are sorted!

Well done OP. Glad my suggestion was useful (didn’t see if anyone else suggested it too) . Revolut is really useful for foreign spending with a decent exchange rate so hopefully your boss won’t need to bother you again!

Well done on saying no OP.

However there may not be any grand fraud. We are overseas on assignment and wages paid into our U.K. bank. We do have a local bank account but it was a pain to get.

We do know a bit about taxes in our current country but the company hires accountants to manage our tax affairs so we don't know much.

When we need a check for something someone else has to write it as we have none, which is a pain.

Good on you OP.

HR who agreed that boss shouldn't be asking me to do those things and I should say no

How very very helpful of them 🤣

Did you get a copy of the notes from the meeting?

It would be interesting to see his reaction if you told him you've asked HMRC, Your personal bank, the Police and a solicitor for information on how this would affect you legally and if they say it would have no repurcussions on you then you'll do it, you're just waiting to hear back first. I strongly suspect he'd tell you not to bother

I've just got to the post where you shut the problem down altogether, well done OP :)