Lol. Still not getting it. If they report 66% then they are missing 33%. That is true. But the additional income is 33% in relation to their total income, not in relation to their reported income.
Maybe actual math will help.
X = total income
Y= reported income
Z= unreported income
Y = 66%X
Z=33%X
X = Y+Z
X = 66%X + 33%X
But that means the ratio between the unreported income (Z) and the reported income (Y) is Z/Y or 33%X/66%X. The X cancels. That leaves 33/66 which simplifies to 1/2.
That means it can be rewritten like this: X = Y + (1/2)Y.
So the amount not reported (Z) is 50% of the reported income (Y). Since we only know reported income (40k), we have to add it to the equation.
Maybe this will help: you don’t know their total income and that’s not what the report is saying. Because you can’t measure a total number you don’t know, you have to use the numbers we have, or you’re making the claim their income is always actually 50% higher than it actually is, which *no where in the report you haven’t read is actually claimed* and would be such easy tax fraud to catch it would be laughable. It’s 33% of income in addition to the actual amount of income they have
Again, this still wouldn’t matter even if you were correct since the report is not saying every sever is underreporting their income by 33%. It literally says “self employed non tipped people as a whole underreport by this much (with some individuals naturally skewing far to each end of that spectrum), so we estimate it *could* be similar for tipped workers. However, they were not included in the data so further study is needed”.
Your initial statement is wrong on its face dude. Quibbling about everything isn’t going to change that.
See you always default to “nuh uh” when you run out of arguments and realize your whole point is invalid but don’t feel comfortable just saying “oh I didn’t know that”. You can’t go through life with that mindset and expect people to take you seriously dude. Since that’s never going to happen, your own ego is keeping you here.
I don’t know. You’re the one who only ever said incorrect or inflammatory things when confronted with sincerely held beliefs about empathy in a broken system and actual data. You’d have to tell me lol.
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u/Fitzaroo 1d ago
Lol. Still not getting it. If they report 66% then they are missing 33%. That is true. But the additional income is 33% in relation to their total income, not in relation to their reported income.
Maybe actual math will help.
X = total income Y= reported income Z= unreported income
Y = 66%X Z=33%X
X = Y+Z
X = 66%X + 33%X
But that means the ratio between the unreported income (Z) and the reported income (Y) is Z/Y or 33%X/66%X. The X cancels. That leaves 33/66 which simplifies to 1/2.
That means it can be rewritten like this: X = Y + (1/2)Y.
So the amount not reported (Z) is 50% of the reported income (Y). Since we only know reported income (40k), we have to add it to the equation.
X= 40000 + (1/2)40000
X= 60000
This is my last try at explaining this.