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by poooogles 1856 days ago
>Do you think tax compliance is higher in small local businesses than large mega corps?

I can't speak for anywhere but the UK, but yes 100%. Small businesses overall tax burden is much higher than large multinationals.

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That can be true while tax evasion is rife. There can't be too many reasons our plasterer expected £4000 worth of work paid in cash. Any honest business would worry about the costs involved in handling that much cash.

Of course plastering is a very labour intensive process and it would be easy to pay all of the guys cash in hand.

Another time I asked our plumber if she minded receiving a large amount of cash (which we'd been legally given by our grandparents) she said it made no difference, she would have to put it into her bank because she was applying for a mortgage.