They literally get a referral bonus in the form of tax credits, etc...

The joke was that someone else was paying for it.

Parents pay more sales tax on things like diapers, clothes, etc.

As trash as we’ve made modernity Ill take this over dying of a shitborne disease in a mudhut

I've been told we live in one of those!

Child actors and actresses pay income tax. Children who work in family businesses often make a wage and are taxed on that.

Technically yes, but didnyoubgo to work to earn money to pay taxes as a child?

No. But technically speaking, ididnbgo to work to earn money to pay taxes as an adult either. So I'm not sure where this line of questioning is going.

                    2024-08-21

Amt. Unit  Item
1    pc    Star Trek-style system

does not seem that tall to me...

My mom was an accountant and told me this story.

A finance guy had sole control of a rather large account. At some point he's strapped for cash, and just needs a little to cover the next few weeks. So he pulls a little out of this account, writes down what he took and what he'll pay back, including interest. He's not trying to embezzle, he's just in a tight spot.

Well, it goes pretty well, he paid it back and no one noticed. A few years pass and he's in a tight spot again, no problem he'll borrow from the account and pay it back just like before. Except this time he can't cover it. But he manages to make a quick sale to bring some extra cash in to the account to conceal what he'd taken. This starts a pattern, he withdraws money, but because money is constantly moving in and out, no one really notices and he's able to continue stealing money from this fund. It's a few thousand initially, after a few years it's a few hundred thousand.

Suddenly he's in so far over his head there is absolutely no way he'll ever be able to pay it back. It's a matter of time before he gets caught and he figures that before he commits suicide, it would be best if he just came forward with it, perhaps some of the partners in his firm can help him out. This was an 11th hour revelation, as I understand this man realized he could just confess while standing on the bridge.

He explains what he did, why he did it, and gives an accurate accounting of how much he stole to his board. After a moment of shocked silence one board member stands up, and says "I know what you should do." And before the relief could finish washing over him at a solution, he continued "you should kill yourself."

Shortly after that meeting, the IRS is at his door with a handful of US Marshalls.

Line 8 kids, if you're stealing money and no one's noticing, it goes on Line 8. Break one law at a time.

[CIA has entered chat]

You can cancel your subscription, but that might not go so well.

Stateless people actually have a real issue. While it sucks having to pay taxes, not having any country willing to acknowledge you as their citizen is much worse.

The cap on foreign earned income exclusion is $126,500 for 2024. That's not gonna make much of a dent for Chadbro McTechnut

yup, you don't pay personal income tax up to about $113,000 right now under those conditions, but If you're making $6,000 an hour, it's a lot easier to hire people in countries with stricter privacy laws to hide your cash in shell corporations so that you can pretend you don't have any money at all, just carry around "debt" because one of your companies owes your other company a bunch of money, even though both companies are far in the black.

Live wherever you want at a price point you can afford(lots of choices out there) for 11+ months out of the year and income taxes up to 120k(as of 2023) are gonzo.