Dog walker wants cash in hand

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Started using a new dog walker in January, as old one moved away. Today he messaged and asked if I can start paying cash. Ive been paying by bank transfer and always on time. AIBU to think no, you can be paid through the correct channels like everyone else. For the record he charges towards the higher rate for the area, so it's not like I'm getting a bargain.

Cash payments do = tax evasion a lot of the time. As they have done for years. We’re getting better at clamping down on evasion. Most of us pay income tax via PAYE which makes it impossible to evade. It’s people like dog walker and builders, and gardeners etc that are driving evasion. You’re naive not to realise this.

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Aw, bless. You see? This is the problem. These are the attitudes we are up against. And these people actually get to vote. No intelligence test required. Scary.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for lower taxes, the lower the better, but I'm actually embarrassed for you.

I’d say no to cash payments, mainly because it’s a pain in the arse for me. And I like the paper trail so to speak.

I know someone who paid a builder cash for a house refurb.

100k. In cash.

that’s got to be a lot of tax they avoided.

This is an extremely stuck up thing to say- not everyone has cash machines near them and as people have already explained multiple times, we have to pay a fee to withdraw cash in many places.

If you enjoy paying banks extra money for the privilege of taking out your own money, travelling for 20 or more minutes to find a working ATM then bully for you but its stuck up and laughable to pretend the rest of us should enjoy wasting our time and money like that.

Valid point, but then when we go food shopping or buy a purchase do we not pay there and then? We don’t walk away with our purchases then bank transfer after? Also we use to be able to pay by cheque that stopped being a method of payment one reason because some were bouncing 🤷🏻‍♀️. We can all nit pick at the ‘what if’s’ the point I was making is the op has made an assumption thinking asking for cash is due to avoiding the tax man, the point I’m making is that is not always the case, it can be due to many reasons and most are not as judgmental. It’s a dog walker not someone booked to do home improvements just saying. OP Get an invoice and a receipt, pay with the preferred method or get another dog walker.

I am not saying that bank transfer is not easier, I bank transfer people but like I said my point was the unfair assumption from the OP.

People like this really are facilitating tax evasion and desperately need to be convicted along with the builders. What the hell did they think they were doing?

VAT evasion of £20k, income tax or corp tax on top of that. Absolutely disgusting. Probably evaded the salary of a youth worker for a year for instance.

If I knew who the builder was as I’d have reported it.

it was a relative who was quite open about paying cash so the builder wasn’t paying tax for a cheaper deal. That’s a lot of money they saved from tax evasion too.

I pay cash for as many things as I can.

for all you know he or she needs the cash on that day for their tea that night.

Your friend would have had the booking from Rover. That's her proof.

First world problems. Are you always easily offended

Bank transfers are instant though?

if she needs the money for her tea tonight then it makes no difference cash or bank transfer, even PayPal is an option.

money is in her account usually within an hour and she can go buy her tea.

with the added benefit that she doesn’t risk losing it. I have lost a reasonable about over the years when I’ve dropped a second note I hadn’t realised I’d taken out with the first, put a tenner in a pocket absentmindedly then couldn’t find it when I needed it.

plus handing over a £20 and the cashier giving you change for £10. Easily done.

there’s less risk with cash. Do you get a receipt every time? What happens if someone says you didn’t pay?

When you can say this has dealt with the bigshot evaders funneling millions through the Caymans & other loopholes, let me know - oh wait they'll continue doing that while we make the average working man jump through hoops for a few quid. Obsessed with bureaucracy. But then it's always been easier for society to pick on the little guy than deal with the bigger problems right?

It has a whiff of contempt about it, as if the customer is always in the wrong and their opinions are neither here nor there.

Similar to you telling a former business owner pp that ‘it’s not 1956!’ then?

YABU to not accept his mechanism for payment if you want to use his services.

if it doesn’t suit you, YANBU to find someone else. I wouldn’t use his services because I couldn’t be arsed to get cash out each time but I’d accept that as a ‘me issue’ and find someone else I could pay via bank transfer or DD.

How do you propose public services such as schools, hospitals and roads are funded if not through tax? What a ridiculous thing to say.

Nothing snobby about wanting people to pay their fair share just like most of us do.

Just because big corporations and the very wealthy evade big sums of tax, that doesn’t negate the millions lost through small companies and sole traders being paid in cash and not declaring.

Both things are a problem and both things need addressing.

Hes not unreasonable to ask. Cash is legal tender. Not like he's asking you to pay in bags of coke.

If its inconvenient for you just say that.

Well if she doesn’t like it then find another dog walker. He isn’t obliged to give her his bank details or accept payments in any method he doesn’t want to

Please write to Amazon Starbucks Nero and all the other tax evaders who avoid millions leave the dog walker alone

I pay most people bank transfer to help them avoid the transaction costs on card charges. I haven’t got time for cash and I would rather they put the cost up for a card charge than assumed my time was free to drive to the ATM and back however often. If you walk past an ATM more often than I do it might not be such a nuisance though.

Yet again, there is a difference between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion (illegal). Have a look back through the thread and read one of the explanations of this.

It’s funny, today a customer paid his bill in cash, a few thousand pounds. I gave him a vat invoice and all is fine…….
funny how folk instantly think ooooooo avoiding tax…. Not at all. Legal tender and perfectly acceptable form of payment

who would have thought it!

Do you not wonder why your customer has that much cash lying about to pay you a few thousand in cash?

If you pay in cash there's no record of the transaction.

There's the chance that recipient is evading tax. Although a previous poster was all for that, we can't complain about under funded schools, CAMHS, NHS etc if we participate in fraud.

He could be above board but the again maybe hes just not paying for his child support.

Despite assertions that using cash is free, it simply isn't. There's the OPs time in getting that cash, the dog walkers time in banking it. On a larger scale there are security costs involved.

Using cashless methods actually works out cheaper than cash for businesses according to the unimpeachable Tim Harford.

I'd sack him off its a pain dealing with cash