European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse February 1978 the stars and stripes Page fat Odoffi i fees pm by my in 40 Sara a nil Al not tout the tax free work underground you mean the cd new Fustin the 5th by by Jerry Flint new York tints Gary u is a 27yearold actor in los ust be tamed from television the theater and extra work in the but employment in Hollywood is nut Gary has sideline House he earned painting last year and did not report a Penny of it to the government i Vedope in the work or subterranean Economy it some Call whatever the unreported wort and j not such As Bon maw Sadi and May be the activity May coot us government billions o Dol in Unco ceded taxes and in social welfare it May distort unemployment and income Fig which Are used to determine National economic mom today Are awl Ibey at employment tit thematic m tar u policy u my Peter Bead of the debut mint at Bunch of Becky inv entry of new in for Are adjusting the Way the i Are the government reported that Unev into Ymell Wai Down to the lowest in three that was enough to make president Carter ask i Charles chairman of the Council of econom Etc if till proposal for a us billion tax Cut was i till Chuhi Afiwa that to i the Offton books work some i that unemployment figures Are and that the the Middle income and the Wel Todo earn More Money than statistics it u not Loo to had of Betalu Obi awl income of Azov Mytty u there Are Small business such a Laurie a woman who owns boutique in Houston and i Tampa meet of the Cash she takes about a without reporting u and without if 1 bad to pay on this the i i i feed my cab or my Crummy Little Goto or dec Tytor to bar of there arc the temporarily Harry is 39 land 4 bricklayer from he is nit of work fre 6 Quentlyn because of the slowdown in the although collects unemployment he that he often finds two Days at work a week off the i the food Bill for the family his three children find Mother is Tuo week he and the Utility Bills i Are going there driving me into the ground the i Sera Are the salaried i a Chicago woman earning at an advertising j Agency lays that she cams an additional a year f through freelance out reports Only i need the Money More than the government the takes so much from and in holding Down two extra jobs just to get that if i de Clare it it pushes me into a different tax and i want to feed my not the government and there Are the 1 never had a cleaning woman who want on Wel says a Detroit woman who cooperated with her employees by never filing social Security for f so what she i need every Dollar i can get to survive out says Dorothy a fio hat three children an lives in the Watts area of los she earns a week and gets a Christ Mas i support my entire she in not on welfare or anything like if i made lot of i would report every but t to a week sure Doest go ill had to pay i would have nothing the employer was him workers oktkencw4 May pay at a Tower a new York qty for us that contractors Ofutt offer saturday at straight unit pay i Metri or the overtime Bat us pay h la the in carib and unreported an employer avoids paying social Security and local employment As Well As government by paying workers in this Way and he May conceal the size of his As he would want to a if he a not re porting All of his own it is difficult to estimate How much income or How Many jobs Are the internal Revenue service says that it makes no nor does the Bureau of labor every time weve tried to measure we dont get any Good says Deborah an economist at the it could be that it int As big As Jome or that people Are Loo scared or too smart to the amount of personal unreported income puts a downward Bias on the u a Man is collect ing unemployment compensation but his wife probably wont Tell the truth to the census lakers co letting the unemployment figures each she Martin a division chief in the but i dont think it changes the system in the Noone is quite i walked into a Delicatessen restaurant to order a Sandwich says Harold director of new York states unemployment insurance division in two waitresses were walking by and one said int it a shame Hes allowing her to work off the books and collect Kaser started his investigation on the after initial employer admits he How much of it god Only be its one of my main worrying about the amount of it is the integrity of the system that is at he guesses t Bai improper claim account for 1 or i per Bear time and people say everybody does he tin Tan that not then he recalls a comp in by a Vermont ski slope operator about a new yorker collecting new York Unev ploy ment compe Fatiori and offering to work on the slopes at f an off the a the work says Herbert regional commissioner or the Bureau of labor in new everybody knows it but it in like a bit of you cant put your fingers on new York is much More prosperous than the employ ment figure he the reality Doest completely reconcile with the one would have to be Blind not to think the subterranean Eom omy Doest play an important Rote in new Gutmann of Bartich Rouege Mil Rapatas the subterranean As he it in an article financial analysts at Jim about 10 percent of the Gross National which in Normal conditions would translate into u million most illegal or unreported Taco Roe is probably produced by those also employed in recorded he but if even u percent of the subterranean Economy comes from those not otherwise total employ men exceeds official statistics by some u per cent comes from the officially unemployed total employment is More than u million be he More i Dak of the More i think thai is Ai his estimates Are made by examining figures for Cash in circulation and concluding that they Are Overly Large because of Offeh Tooks the increase in depos Fis in checking shows that the underground a cont my is growing he at those employment us Nicholas research director of the teamster Union joint Council is in new who also believes work is substantial and inflates the Fig married men out of work to 3 separated and divorced at 7 single men nearly 11 he come going on How Are they eating a married Guy has to work regularly because his kids will look strange at the other Guys go Hus and Offeh books income la one the of the things he Hustles me says that the practice reinforces All the paranoid suspicions that All of life is Larcelous and a and that Type of attitude leads to an alienated there Dent seem to by a treat Deal to moral Coneen Anong quiz of la work or Bat Lam a West coast radio executive recalls that while earn ing to a Yew for three he pock Eust nearly How for consultations with he got his Lees in Cash and did not report strictly i think its he cant say 1 really needed the it want a question of eating or not and its not something i really feel Good More common was the attitude of a Small businessman m new whenever i buy he i go to the smaller ask for the owner and ask How much for no receipts i get a percent off and dont pay sales he writes it off his inventory As does he feel any avoiding a state tax and conspiring with another to create Offeh books income surety you jest he
