Target rich environment. I wonder when the illegals get an exemption.
Posted on 01/08/2012 2:11:45 PM PST by La Enchiladita
SACRAMENTO -- The state of California targets an "underground economy." Agencies are going after businesses that pay employees in cash, avoiding workers compensation insurance and withholding taxes. The state's going high-tech to crack down on those employers.
The Contractors State License Board of California has videotaped numerous sting operations where they catch businesses operating without a license and hiring workers under the table -- meaning those businesses aren't paying payroll taxes, workers compensation insurance or contributing to unemployment benefits like legitimate businesses, and pocketing that money instead.
California's underground economy, which includes the landscaping, restaurant, farming and construction industries, is estimated to cost the state $7 billion per year in lost revenue.
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Target rich environment. I wonder when the illegals get an exemption.
What do you mean, an employee works under a contractors license, he isn’t his own licensed company.
Oh, come on. Is paying taxes a news flash for you? Listen, as long as taxes are part of the game, then EVERYBODY pays them. Would you like the state to go bankrupt and have Mexico take over?
The foreign third world invasion is a JFK legacy which was finely made into law in 1965.
That word was meant to be ‘finally’.
California could make this work by setting up an 800 number to rat people out. Then you would have most of the illegals ratting each other out due to jealousy, lover’s quarrels, revenge, drug deals gone bad....
The possibilities are endless
I used to mow lawns in CA for cash. Would they come after me for that now?
Probabaly. I used to work for a delivery company that did the same.
Everyone was on straight commission.
If you are an employee or a contractor, then yes.
Let's see -- do they go to Texas or not?
And if they do, does Perry claim credit or not?
Cheers!
Requiring the employer to pay up requires the employer to fire the illegal employees, so it’s a win-win solution to the overall problem of illegals. We have been saying on FR for years and years that employers of illegals SHOULD be targeted. Otherwise, it does no good to catch-and-release.
This is a good thing. Employers have been cheating the system for their own benefit, at the cost of us taxpayers, since the early seventies.
this is probably one of the reasons consumer spending continued to increase even while the official unemployment numbers continued to increase.
Used to be that the excuse by CA was people working off the books didn’t make enough to pay taxes anyway. My, how tunes change.
Under the table businesses?? Will that include drug dealers and porn producers?
I remember when they pulled a raid on the restaurants in the Mammoth Lakes ski area in California a decade or so ago. Every restaurant in town had to close down for several days until Immigration left town.
If not Gil "One bill" Cedillo and the other Mexican and Latin American representatives in the government will have a bill passed by lunch time Monday and Brown will be there with hundreds of thousands of immigrant "rights" groups to sign the bill.
So if ILLEGALs are 100 times more likely than citizens to be doing this the solution will be to fine the citizens 100 times more. That's California!
It's not going to be good for the greedy corrupt business owners either Jose!
“Why aren’t they going after the employees, as well as the employers???”
You can bet they will - though not directly. These “underground employees” are also likely collecting welfare, food stamps and other elements of the panoply of cradle-to-grave benefits.
The welfare state is just “extra” money for the underground employees
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