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oh this is odd - Tutor asked to be paid in cash

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 16:37

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forevercleaning · 15/06/2008 17:00

i also prefer to pay in cash cos some people hang on to them for ages and then bank a whole load at once when i have forgotten about it.

maidamess · 15/06/2008 17:03

My dd's tutor insisted on cash. And took several cruises a year.

popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:08

I must admit to be a cheque-hanger-on-er-er

Freckle · 15/06/2008 17:42

Perhaps having cash like that saves her from having to find a hole-in-the-wall. Perhaps it's her spending money for the weekend. Doesn't necessarily mean that she isn't going to declare it. Maybe she's lost her paying in book....

NotABanana · 15/06/2008 17:44

I wouldn't swap any paid cheques for cash and would only pay in cash in future if it suited me and she had a good reason for it.

Swedes · 15/06/2008 17:51

Her tax is none of your business. She is perfectly at liberty to ask for cash. You are perfectly at liberty to consider this suspicious and ring the sad-gits-shop-a-cheat helpline any time you like. Is she helping your son?

nappyelite · 15/06/2008 18:12

perhaps she's on her way to a big night out after she gets paid and needs the money for vodka?

BlueDragonfly · 15/06/2008 18:16

sometimes DP asks for cash instead of cheques (guitar teacher amongst other things). he is not doing it in a dodgy way. Cash enters his account faster and we often need the money immediately so we can run away from bailiffs pay the bills

Aero · 15/06/2008 19:13

Ds1's tutor asks for cash also, but will accept a cheque for larger amounts. I pay her half-termly by cheque which is fine, but for anyone wanting to pay weekly, it's cash only. By paying several weeks at a time, I also get a discount of £1 a week.

I think the reason is to keep costs down. Cashing cheques will cost her as she is running a business, so it makes sense not to accept smaller amounts this way as she'll pay the same bank charge for a £5 cheque as she would for a £50 one iyswim. We have the same at Karate as well.

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:17

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maidamess · 15/06/2008 20:18

All tutors are as rich as goblins.

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:19

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frogs · 15/06/2008 20:19

Dd1's former tutor asked for payment by cash. V. respectable former headteacher-type. Now ds goes to her, she's switched to termly payment by cheque, which is a bigger lump sum (obviously) but more convenient for me.

Her tax is her own business imo.

maidamess · 15/06/2008 20:20

Snitch!

edam · 15/06/2008 20:22

Oh, pay her cash and stop worrying about it. She may be not declaring, she may be operating perfectly legitimately and using cash because it's faster/easier etc. etc. etc. You don't know so don't worry about it.

If she did happen to drop into conversation 'by the way, I'm diddling the Revenue and haven't declared my earnings for the past decade' then as a mag you might well have to dob her in. But she hasn't.

Quattrocento · 15/06/2008 20:22

I don't get this tutoring malarkey. What do they get tutored for? Surely being codlets they don't need tutoring.

Cheques leave a trail which can be traced by HMRC. It's most likely that said tutor is on the tax fiddle. But it is also possible that (like me) going to the bank is a PITA and therefore cash is preferred. So well, I think outrage is not called for unless you have proof positive that the tutor is not declaring it.

I can feign outrage for you if you like cod

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:23

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frogs · 15/06/2008 20:23

Cello teacher gets paid in cash unless I haven't been organised enough. But she's a young 20-something rather than a 60-something pillar of the community.

Had a v. v. posh, v. v. rich landlady years ago who insisted on being paid monthly in cash for the rent on the flat that she'd bought for her kids for when they finished Bedales. Arf. She was deeply annoying, and I did resent that cos it was such an obviously crass tax-avoidance measure. It didn't break our hearts when they lost it all in the Lloyds crash.

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:23

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:24

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unknownrebelbang · 15/06/2008 20:25

Knowning absolutely nothing about any of this, if it's a business as such, will her bank a/c be a business a/c, in which case she may get charged for each cheque?

maidamess · 15/06/2008 20:25

Been there, done that. Works though!

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/06/2008 20:26

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tortoiseSHELL · 15/06/2008 20:26

In piano teaching I now get cheques. But it used to be a real pain as I couldn't get to the bank very often, cash was instant, but also the stupid bank wouldn't accept cheques made out to me, because my parents had me known by my middle name, and the banks couldn't cope with this.

edam · 15/06/2008 20:27

Well, if he passes, leave it alone, if he fails...

Not odd at all, loads of people who do this kind of work ask for cash. Is a whole lot easier that having to pay cheques in (although I suspect not declaring might be among the top reasons). Returning cheques for cash is quite extreme, though.

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