Sal Paradise wrote:
Like any business where cash is involved there are opportunities for evasion/avoidance a small perk for the high levels of risk.
High levels of risk?
Taking cash from people before you wash their car in a former petrol station that the owner cannot lease out to anyone else other than another petrol retailer who won't touch it with a bargepole and for which he doesn't have the huge finance needed to dig up the tanks and convert it back into a brownfield site which is then of low development value - that sort of high risk ?
Outlay is low rent (you've got the owner over a barrel), your water rates, some buckets, sponges and wash leathers, an old wringer from a junk shop and one of those advertising things that you blow air into and a 20 foot high balloon man jumps around in the breeze (they can be rented and if you're lucky you'll have done a runner before they come for the next months installment) - find yourself a handful of cash-in-hand Latvians and plot your route over the back fence when HMRC arrive - sorted.
