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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

36.5k minus income tax. Unless you don't pay the IRS like the rich people, but that's illegal (if you are not rich).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If you're rich enough to not pay income tax, your money isn't coming from being employed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Even the $365,000 level is not enough to not pay income tax.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't prostitution illegal in most parts of the western world? So it's essentially tax free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The IRS actually has a field for reporting illegal income. Tax evasion is a separate crime which often leads to criminals establishing or gaining a stake in legal business which they'll use to run their money through and pay taxes. Famously, Al Capone actually went to prison for tax evasion rather than for his other crimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Film it and now it's totally legal porn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

weirdly in australia prostitution is legal but filming porn is mostly technically illegal (but we do it anyway because nobody cares)