Black and gray salary

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In order to save budget, entrepreneurs hire workers without formal employment. The contract between the employer and the worker is concluded orally. A person receives a cash payment personally from the company’s accountant or employer. The citizen continues to be considered unemployed and his work experience is not accrued.

This form of remuneration is called black wages. No transfers to social and pension organizations are made.

The salary is paid to the employee without deduction:

• personal income tax;
• alimony;
• debts from court decisions;
• taxes to the Pension Fund;
• funds for social and health insurance.

Employment without official registration is considered a violation. The employer and the employee who agreed to the scam will be held accountable for receiving illegal wages.

When an employment contract is concluded with a citizen, monthly cash payments can be divided into two parts.

One amount is calculated officially, the second salary in envelopes is given out illegally. Payments not carried out according to accounting reports can be several times larger than the salary from which taxes are withheld.

The mixed form of remuneration is popularly called “gray salary”. The employee's work experience continues, but alimony, transfers to the insurance and pension fund, and personal income tax are not collected in full. Black wages bring more negative consequences than gray wages.

ATTENTION! If an official employment contract was concluded between the employer and the applicant for the position during employment, then the employee will receive a white salary. The monthly salary amount is stated in the document.

Menial wages are paid when the new employee and the employer have verbally agreed on the employee's duties and salary.

Gray salary

Its recipients are also officially employed. But according to their contract, they receive a very small amount. In most cases, it is only slightly higher than the minimum wage. The remaining majority of the employee's salary is given in an envelope.

Of course, this difference, obtained unofficially, does not appear in the employer’s accounting documents. Personal income tax is not withheld from the gray share, future pensions are not formed, and contributions to insurance and extra-budgetary funds are not deducted. Thus, official income documents reflect only that small portion of the salary that is indicated in the employment contract.

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This scheme of paying a gray salary as an insurance is also popular. Of course, this is also illegal and occurs through employer-friendly insurance companies.

Consequences

Owners of small private enterprises often persuade applicants for a vacant position to work in the organization without registration. The employer explains to the new employee that there is no need to pay taxes and alimony on an unofficial salary, and accordingly, the amount received in person will be greater.

Having agreed to the arguments of the enterprising employer, the new employee accepts the proposed conditions. At first, this form of remuneration seems more profitable, since a person receives the entire agreed amount without tax, insurance, or alimony deductions.

The unpleasant consequences of working without official registration begin later. A citizen who receives a salary in an envelope does not receive sick leave, pay, or vacation pay. The employer may stop paying wages or unilaterally reduce their amount.

It is difficult to reclaim unaccrued money. The main proof of the rights of a working person is an employment contract. If the document was not signed, it means that the parties, by mutual consent, entered into an agreement contrary to the current law.

Adverse consequences of receiving illegal wages for an employee of an enterprise:

• Lack of social guarantees. Citizens who work unofficially do not receive money for sick leave. Without a certificate of income, a worker cannot apply for child benefits or receive child care payments after childbirth. Private entrepreneurs who do not draw up an agreement with an employee do not consider it necessary to pay vacation pay or compensation.
• The employer is able to stop paying wages to employees, citing lack of funds.
• The employer can reduce the agreed amount unilaterally, dismiss a sick employee without warning or severance pay.
• An entrepreneur is free to lay off an employee. In this case, the state employment center will register the citizen, but the minimum benefit will be paid to him.
• A citizen does not accumulate pension points.
• A person receiving unofficial income is considered a tax evader. If a violation is discovered, the citizen will be held accountable.
• The employee's rights are not protected.
• There are no entries in the work book about positions held. It is difficult to prove professional experience in subsequent employment.
• Persons who evade alimony by receiving an unofficial salary face criminal liability.

With unofficial employment, the unpleasant consequences are much greater than the benefits.

ATTENTION! Work performed under a verbal agreement with the employer may remain unpaid. It is difficult to prove the fact of non-payment of labor in this case.

Responsibility of the hired employee

A company employee who receives a salary unofficially will be held accountable, as will his employer. The logic is simple: if a person knows that taxes are not deducted from his income and continues to work under these conditions, then the situation suits him.

An employee will avoid punishment:

• to whom the salary is paid in cash, but the person believes that deductions were made from the income received;
• who independently declared his income to the tax office, paid personal income tax, alimony and other tax fees.

The tax return must be filed no later than April 30. In the document, the citizen indicates the income received and its source. Paid insurance premiums and taxes give the right to receive pension points.

For failure to submit reports to regulatory authorities, a citizen faces a fine. The defaulter will be charged the amount of tax and 5% of hidden income.

For particularly large amounts of unpaid tax to the state treasury, citizens can be held accountable under Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Such actions of an individual as concealment of income, non-payment of taxes are considered illegal. For non-payment of taxes to the state treasury in the amount of 600,000 rubles or more, the tax inspectorate and the court have the right to:

1. collect from a citizen 100,000 - 300,000 rubles;
2. force the taxpayer to perform corrective labor for a period of up to 12 calendar months;
3. limit the freedom of an individual to 1 year.

Negative consequences for employees

As statistics show, a considerable number of citizens agreed and agree to black and gray wages. Some because of hopelessness, lack of other offers in their specialty. Someone, explaining that it helps to evade taxes. But at the same time, few people realize the full extent of the negative consequences of their decision.

Future pension. From the small official part of the gray salary, the same small share of contributions to the Pension Fund is deducted. Accordingly, nothing is deducted from the black salary at all.

Even if you are far from retirement, you should not take this issue lightly. Pension legislation is constantly changing: it is possible that when you reach an age when you cannot provide for yourself, you will be left virtually without a livelihood, without hope of government support.

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Sick leave, maternity leave. The amount of social benefits during these periods directly depends on the level of your official monthly income. Accordingly, with a gray salary, you risk receiving the most minimal financial support during your temporary disability.

For the unemployed (and they are officially the recipients of a black salary), maternity leave is calculated according to the minimum wage. Sick leave is not paid at all.

Loan on favorable terms. With a gray and black salary you shouldn’t count on such an opportunity. Preferential, specialized loans, mortgages with state support are available only to citizens with fully officially registered income.

Yes, a number of banks issue loans to their clients without a certificate confirming official income. But such offers have a higher interest rate.

Difficult debt collection. If your employer has delayed your unofficial salary, it will be difficult to collect what is due from him. First of all, you will have to collect a sufficient number of facts confirming the presence of shadow finance in the organization, which is very difficult to do.

Responsibility for non-payment of taxes. In the Russian Federation, citizens are required to pay a certain percentage of their income to the state treasury. And from salary as well. If you don't do this, you are breaking tax laws. If income concealment is discovered, you will be forced not only to pay due taxes for the entire period of work, but also to pay an impressive fine.

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Employer's liability

Employers who pay salaries in an envelope can be fined large sums by regulatory organizations. An employer who hires an employee without official registration violates the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. For such acts, the head of the organization will be punished under articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code.

Controlling authorities conclude that there are illegal payments after:

• analysis of the level of expenses of the organization’s employees and salaries paid at this enterprise;
• receipt of an application to one of the state regulatory organizations (tax, labor inspectorate, prosecutor's office) from employees dissatisfied with the current situation;
• the appearance of information about hidden income on the Internet, newspapers;
• financial audits of the enterprise;
• reconciling the number of people present at workplaces with the number of persons indicated in the accounting statements.

To hold an employer accountable, you need to prove the fact of payment of “black wages.” Control authorities carry out inspections:

1. after receiving an application from workers;
2. according to the instructions of higher organizations.

Identification of violations of workers' rights leads to the bringing of a legal entity to administrative liability, and the manager to criminal punishment.

LLC, individual entrepreneur and other types of legal entities are subject to a fine for black patching. According to Art. 122, 123 of the Tax Code, an amount of 20% of the amount of tax not transferred to the treasury will be collected from the enterprise. An organization for failure to pay insurance premiums for its employees will be fined from 5,000 to 10,000 rubles.

For failure to pay personal income tax for citizens working at the enterprise in an amount exceeding 2 million rubles, the employer will be punished under Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The head of the company will go to prison, and government authorities will collect a large sum of money from the organization.

Judicial practice shows that in our country, punishment in the form of restriction of freedom is rarely applied for such acts. What threatens the employer for black wages, non-payment of taxes, concealment of income:

• in every second lawsuit, the defendant is awarded a large fine;
• suspended sentences in 45% of trials;
• sent to prison in 5% of cases.

Where to complain

An employee who finds out that the employer does not pay taxes and insurance premiums for him has the right to file a complaint with the regulatory authority:

1. the prosecutor's office;
2. tax office;
3. state labor inspection;
4. police.

For the victim, it makes no difference which authority begins to verify the legality of the actions of the legal entity. The complaint is supported by documents, witness statements, and recordings of telephone conversations.

IMPORTANT! An employee who receives a mediocre salary indulges the employer. By keeping silent about the facts of violations, an employee of the organization becomes an accomplice in the scam.

What does the color say?

Gray, black, white wages are, of course, conventional names. Such characteristics are given depending on the registration of income (official and unofficial), and the deduction of the necessary tax and insurance deductions from it.

White salary is legally pure income. Gray - 50/50, with the presence of a violation of the Labor Code, Tax Code and other legislative acts. Black - unofficial employment, lack of any guarantees from the employer.

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How to prove the fact of payment

As evidence, the regulatory authorities and the court are provided with:

• company announcement about the availability of a vacancy with a specified salary.
• accounting reports;
• salary certificates;
• correspondence in phone applications;
• audio and video materials;
• witness statements of employees, persons present during employment.

Receiving a “black” salary is the same offense as paying it. The employee and the head of the organization are brought to administrative and criminal liability.

Violators are punished in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code, the Administrative Code and the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. For large non-payments of taxes, the head of a company can be dismissed from his position, convicted, followed by imprisonment.

ATTENTION! Black wages are not beneficial to ordinary workers. A person working unofficially is deprived of his rights. It is difficult to receive the agreed amount from an employer without an employment contract.