SnooperDuper
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Just to clarify the tax evasion issue. FWIK, all that has been said is that JV received cash. There's no crime against that- anyone can get paid cash. What is law is that an employer (in this case DM via Millardair or Millard Properties) MUST issue a T4 prior to the end of February. If DM was paying him cash, it's actually DM that's circumventing the tax system. There's no indication that JV filed a tax return falsifying income info so IMHO, JV has simply not complied with the CRA's requirement to file an annual income tax return. Pretty hard to file when you don't have an accounting from the person who's paying you. DM was taking advantage of his "english as a second language" Columbian construction crew. Also, LW the book keeper never made mention of JV on the payroll. Wonder how DM was putting his rentals and auto lease thru his books. He's probably up to his neck with the CRA and we just don't know about it. MOO
I can totally believe that someone at his age then (50) could be fluent in English but functionally illiterate in English, especially when it comes to government forms and their peculiar vocabulary and interests. I volunteered at a walk-in where people got help with all sorts of government stuff, and a lot of the clientele were ESL and dependent on the help to manage. I have a lot of compassion for JV because he was trusting DM, someone close to him, to do things properly for him.