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...

Love it!!!!

😁😁😁😁😁😁
That's awesome.

This has cheered me up immensely

Presumably he’s not paid much tax or national insurance over the years either.

So he can’t justifiably moan about not getting the money from the govt.

Same situation here. Chickens coming home to roost, innit.

I’m imagining him and all the other bastards in the same position, as horrid little rumplestiltskins stamping their tiny feet.

Yanbu. I am laughing too. Oh dear.

You know the buisness owners, who pay for everything as company perks.
They take £1,000 a month as wages, but pay themselves a massive divided, wonder how they feel right now, as they won't get the £2,500 wages as legally they don't earn that

I would not normally laugh at anyone's misfortune but, on this occasion, I'll make an exception. 😂😂😂

This who fiddle to deprive their children of maintenance, those who cheat the state of Income Tax whilst others have to pay, deserve to be caught up with.

My ex is in a similar position. Poor lamb

best thread I've seen all week!

How very satisfying!

Similar thing is happening with a colleague's partner who's a plasterer.

He's 30 and has only ever paid himself minimum wage in order to reduce the tax - no children, he's just a tight git. He's also claimed absolutely everything she and their family members have bought as a 'business expense.' he earns £65,000 a year and they've just bought a £300,000 house. Now, she's being furloughed and he can only claim in line with his last earnings.

So tired of these people who only take cash for work so it remains undeclared.

Absolutely golden!

Well he made this bed...

My X is the same. He insists on cash for 80% of his work, so on paper, he’s virtually on minimum wage. He hid all his assets etc. When we divorced I got nothing. I had to start all over again from scratch at 48 years old. It’s very rare Karma ever gets these nasty creatures but let’s hope they all get their just deserts now. I have zero sympathy.

Yanbu

Yeah, he may have been quids-in in the past, but these sort of idiots always piss their money away.

Thanks for the smile OP! As a self-employed worker myself, who genuinely declares every penny they earn, I am sick of these CFers.

Good.
My dc are both self employed and have always paid every single penny of tax they should.
These greedy, selfish tax dodgers need to suffer consequences.
DH and I worked in the NHS for our entire careers and never had the opportunity to fiddle our taxes.

An utter parasite

Your sins will find you out.

That’s brilliant! I actually had a thought about this the other day, that some self-employed people fiddle their books to avoid paying child maintenance, this is the absolutely perfect punishment for that and makes me smile evilly .

Ok, that’s actually quite funny. 😂

Haha. I did think that those people who fiddle their books to pay less tax or child maintenance are going to be stuffed with the furlough packages and deservedly so.

@cloudbutter

That is extremely funny.

(((HUGS))) to you and your amazing son!