• @[email protected]
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    437 months ago

    While reporting personal income is technically your own problem, the employer is required to withhold and report income taxes on all the salaries they pay out. The company doesn’t have a choice in this.

    He’s not only jeopardising his own tax situation but also the company’s, which would probably be enough reason to fire him.

    Pretending that the sovereign citizen theory was correct, he still made a contract (however contracts works for him) with a company which is operating within the government laws. It’s self-contradictory.

    • @[email protected]
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      217 months ago

      Employers are also not going to misclassify an employee. That actually has somewhat severe penalties.

      • Uranium3006
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        57 months ago

        they do that all the time, just not for sovcit reasons. plenty of people are getting scammed by being called “1099 employees”

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    227 months ago

    A key feature of the SovCit is their tendency to get stuck in the “fuck around” state for long periods without recognizing a “find out” when it occurs.

  • mars296
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    217 months ago

    Why does he even need a job that pays him US currency? Shouldn’t he just print his only currency?

  • @edgemaster72
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    127 months ago

    What remedies do I have here?

    So here’s what you do, Mr. SovCit who can’t read this but I’m still going to pretend I’m addressing directly:

    Get, and this next step is absolutely crucial so I cannot stress this enough, Fucked