Would you report someone for working a second job cash in hand

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…. And not paying tax? Earning around £100-200 extra per week on top of their normal pays job.

has anyone ever done this? Did anything happen?

You still sound dismissive, which is surprising with your experience.

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If by 'foreign home buyers' you mean people who buy houses as investments but don't live in then I totally agree.

Just don't advertise it.
Most people are savvy enough not to delve.

I have tried in vain, in my professional role, to get HMRC interested in some extreme tax evading operations which the police have also declined to take on (hopefully that might change soon). If they can’t give a monkeys about the case I mentioned, I doubt they have the resources to pursue you OP. So frustrating.

But keep schtum in any event as much as possible.

I'd only do it if I had a really good reason, for example if this person was fiddling the books to avoid paying me child maintenance.

But I doubt that's what you're doing OP, so I'd stay out of it. I have a friend who's a self-employed cleaner and she told me that she doesn't declare all of her jobs. But she lives alone and is not exactly wealthy, so I don't know if she could make ends meet otherwise.

I wouldn’t even consider it.

No I don't think so for that amount. Given that times are hard and the government would only give it away to the feckless and bone idle anyway.

If it was a multiple thousands a month and an already rich person then yes I would probably report.

For considering it you deserve to be on the HMRC phone line for all eternity.

Always. I paid my taxes for years. Why shouldn't everyone else. Also to say any job i have ever had done where the trades person wanted cash was inevitabkt a poor quality job. I no longer ever pay cash.

Of course not.

Just because people choose to pay you cash doesn’t mean you’re not declaring it. They can pay cash and assume you’re paying tax on it. I think it’s fine as you’re paying tax on your main salary. You can earn £1k on a side hussle anyway tax free per year so you could just say you earn less than that.

Yes the basic tax rate kicks in at approx £13k. A full time job on minimum wage is approx £26k. So if she is working more than 50 % she needs to be declaring her income,net of reasonable expenses. Enough is enough. This country needs all its citizens to be paying the correct taxes. Not just employees.

You sound naive. Utterly naive. No one is taking cash, if they are not declaring it as income.

Just seen the update it's about yourself..... How would anyone know unless you tell them? Just don't mention it and no one would know to be able to report you

If two million people in the lowest tax bracket earned on average 100 quid a week per year in cash, how much lost tax would that be? And what percentage of that would it be if total tax revenue. I’d say it would be minuscule.

No way.

YYY to you'd be a vicious poisonous jobsworth to do it
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And presumably all those people will be spending their undeclared billions in the official economy. What goes around comes around.

Yes I report my ex often, unfortunately nothing happens, but it's not a second job, it's his main job that he does to avoid paying and says to child maintenance he earns 7 pounds a week...which they accept 🥴

And I don't feel bad or think im a twat 😆 but in other circumstances no I wouldn't report people for this at all

If you’re worried about it just do self assessment. I had income in small amounts from multiple sources for years. Usually below or only just above the tax threshold. Self assessment was easy enough - you just need your P60 from any employment. I never used an accountant as I didn’t earn enough.

I don’t think anyone is likely to report you (how would they know anyway?) but if it will worry you just declare it. It’s honestly pretty straightforward.

No, none of my business.

£100 pw x 52 weeks = £1,040
£1,040 x 2 million = 2 billion and 80 million pounds.

The tax would be 20% of that, which is the cost of 15 million prescriptions to the NHS, or 9,500 teacher’s salaries (using the median salary).

Not for that amount no. If they were working for thousands, yes.

I think your maths is wrong there, its 5k a year income

Or 10 if we're using 200 a week which is what OP put out initially

You edited after I posted!