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MoneySaving Poll: What do you pay cash in hand for?

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Poll started 24 February 2015
What do you pay cash in hand for?
Ed Balls recently caused controversy by saying he’d expect his gardener to give him a receipt for trimming his hedge. With the onus being on the trader to declare the income for tax and VAT purposes, which of these would you typically pay cash in hand for?
FOR SERVICES YOU REGULARLY USE/USED please say if you pay cash in hand or in a traceable way, eg, cash with receipt/invoice or via cheque, card or bank transfer.
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Anything more, I'm likely to have to make a special journey to get cash, so pay by cheque.
I've posted before that most of our regular tradesmen, plumber and tree surgeon, prefer cheques as it helps them budget.
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
So, getting paid cash in hand doesn't necessarily mean someone is on the fiddle. Well, not THAT sort of fiddle, anyhow.
As a Conservative voter hopefully I won't be saying this too often! Ed Balls is right, we should all do it, if it cuts tax evasion then it saves everyone (except criminals that evade tax) money.
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As many MP's have had their expenses fingers burnt, are they just trying to deflect attention?
Forgot to add- I pay cash (no receipts! gosh!) for haircuts, odd cans of drink, chocolate, and fish&chips.. money for the latter is all rung up on their till,so I guess that's legit..
Sometimes seen lurking on the compers forum :-)
Wonder how they provide figures to HMRC for their tax purposes?