to be laughing at my ex right now?

[cloudbutter]

Just spoken to one of his family members. He works for his friend and earns about 45k a year. He fiddles his earnings down to 16k a year and his friend pays him the rest in cash so he has to pay less child maintenance (he has 0 access so this would be fairly high should he declare his full earnings). He is a safeguarding risk to our son and court ordered 0 contact, and I have a lifelong restraining order, so IMHO he deserves no sympathy. He's just been on the phone to this family member who described him as 'going mental' that he's only going to be paid 80% of what he's declared by the government. Apparently it's all my fault as if he didn't have to pay me child maintenance he wouldn't have to have fiddled the books in the first place 😅 cheered me up in my isolation...

You are definitely NBU to be laughing at him right now.

Since the announcement was made yesterday about the arrangements for the self employed, I have been grinning at the thought of all those that have been fiddling their tax for years and it’s now come back to bite them on the arse. Karma at its best.

🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Imcneil003

It’s not other’s misfortune if they have been fiddling the taxman, it’s their dishonesty

I saw the title and was fully prepared to be very judgey but ha!!! Indeed karma is a bitch!

I don't have children and haven't read the whole thread but I take my hat off to all the parents who have been in a situation where their ex partner didn't pay properly for their own child.

I really do not know how you cope with it. We must reform the system somehow to prevent this. It is so unfair on the children and the parent who financially struggles.

Same glee in our household about an ex who has not paid tax for years

Good point hughe

person i know is not fair or amicable so i can imagine some reluctness-but then again surely the payments will then go down in a years -doesnt pay extra either

Maybe, shop the employer, not your ex - you can claim that you've known your ex has had this arrangememt for a lomg time so if you were goimg to shop him, you'd have done it when you found out ages ago!

Excellent

Priceless!

I took 5 minutes to stop laughing at this, and I just told DH and he BURST out laughing, like BA-HA-HA! He knows several men like your ex @cloudbutter and thinks they're scum. Like 'WHY would they not want to support their OWN CHILDREN ?

The same will be happening to people who claim benefits as unemployed while working for cash in hand. If they’ve borrowed or over- committed on the strength of having that cash they are about to get a very rude awakening.

This has given me profound joy today, I know quite a few women who's ex husbands/partners have done this. When one of them reported it it took nearly 2 years for CMS to investigate it, and when they found in her favour the guy just stopped working and moved in with his parents rather than pay the amount due!!

@MummyGoingItAlone. Report both of them. My hard earned tax is being spread thin because of people doing that

I intend to once I’ve had my due pay paid on Monday.
She made me sign a non disclosure agreement but I don’t think that covers tax fraud...

Ha!! I am screwed over by yesterday's announcements because although I declare everything, I'm early stage startup and made a loss last couple of years :( however, fully supporting karma in this instance 😂

YADNBU

plus he’s clearly an arsehole who is prepared to cheat and lie to deprive his own children of money they’re entitled. There’s no way he would ever declare honestly and pay tax to benefit society, so still would’ve been tax dodging regardless

My grandfather used to say

God doesn’t pay his debts with money

Just seen this gem on dad.info:

"So father's who can't see Their children due to mother's keeping them "safe in isolation" for the next three weeks or more - and who also have been stood down from work and received less monthly income.... Do we pay the highest rate according to calculator of "never" seeing child when we work out new monthly payments due to drop in earnings?
Currently on an informal direct pay agreement but amounts are based of the CMS calculator."

So if dads can't see their kids through no fault of the mother, all of a sudden they cost less to feed, clothe etc. Bloody hell, somebody think of the children...

Remember when this is all over and our taxes go up to cover it, It will be the PAYE employees who will suffer unless we shop these f*ckers!

Totally serves him right.

Karma I'd a bitch. Enjoy lol

haha

I said gloating at others misfortune is a rather crude, brexity type emotion. I am sure the OP is better than that...

Really! you weren't better than that (as you admit) but you expect the OP who was left short of the money her child needed should be? And you think she is crude and "brexity" (wtf?) for thinking it is right that the man who left his child short should now be left short himself. Who ARE you? Seriously sanctamonious twaddle here.

Oh and the OP isn't executing "revenge". Don't be so dramatic. She is just amused at how life unfolds. hardly the Count of Monte Cristo here.