You may want to reconsider paying taxes on your babysitter if applicable. I know that a lot of people pay their household help under the table. However, I have a friend who got burned. She and her nanny had a big dispute over an issue that led to a firing (the nanny was in the wrong and needed to be terminated). My friend paid her under the table for almost seven years. The nanny turned her in by filling for unemployment. My friend owes taxes for seven years and penalties. It just is not worth it.

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I've have also seen it many times where an employee wants you to help them beat the system, and then they are the first ones to turn you in to a government agency when things don't go their way.

It's no different from the saying that you never want to do business with someone who cheats in golf.

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