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Re:Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar... by ozim on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:40PM (#33737777)
Not to say that small businesses cheat on taxes always … but quite often they don’t want their stock to be accurately counted.
Re:Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar... by PTcartelsLOL on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:04PM (#33738739)
You hit the nail right in the head...
Re:Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar... by esperent on Friday November 25, 2022 @05:45PM (#33747686)
You're not wrong. And I think for very small businesses this is fine, maybe even necessary.

I guess I'm talking about one step above that, for example when a business grows beyond a single shop with just a couple of staff. At this point the you'll have an accountant and pos software and so on and inaccurately reporting stock or sales would actually take quite a bit of effort. Your staff would have to be in on it, for example. And staff that know you are dishonest are more likely to decide that they can be dishonest too, after all if the business is cheating the government surely it's ok if they cheat the business just a little bit? Overall I think it's not worth it and it's not the kind of business we want to run. I'd rather find extra efficiency elsewhere.