Reply #23: Look at your facts. Very few are paid under the table.

[Cleita]

Most employers, restaurants, hotels and gardening contractors will not risk getting the IRS on their backs by not reporting wages. Day workers across the board don't pay taxes no matter what their ethnicity. I used to know a bunch of caddies from the nearby country club, all legal Americans who were paid by the day and never filed taxes, so brown, Spanish speaking guys aren't the only guilty parties.

You must be very well off to know so many people who have domestics. If so, the law states they have to take Social Security out of their wages and send it into the IRS. If your rich friends aren't doing this then you should report them to the IRS. Considering too that those domestics who aren't having FICA taken out of their wages usually only get room and board and very little cash, like the minimum wage legally required. Even if they filed they probably wouldn't owe taxes on their slave labor wages.