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What stops a person from lying (within a reasonable time difference) about where they live?

• perlgeek 8y ago
  Ethics? Fear of voiding the employment contract if based on false information? I also don't think it's practical. Here in Germany at least, the address of residency is used in so many contexts (health insurance, pension schemes, tax things etc.) that I doubt this would go unnoticed very long. For example the city you live in determines which regional tax office handles your income tax, and I'm pretty sure it's easy to notice for a company if some of the income tax goes to an address that doesn't match the employee's city.
  • def_true_false 8y ago
    It's not like people always keep their residence up to date though. If you are still able to receive official correspondence at your previous address (e.g. parents' home), why would you bother changing it? Even more so across a border -- it's trivial to have multiple residences at the same time and they are not guaranteed to be unique, nor are they necessarily considered tax residences. That is, you can be tax resident in a country where you don't have permanent residence even if you have permanent residence in another country.
• hbosch 8y ago
  Their W-2.