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Where do you live where helping someone voluntarily is illegal? I do that much more than straight "tit for tat" bartering.
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
Where do you live where helping someone voluntarily is illegal?
I do that much more than straight "tit for tat" bartering.
- cinntaile 5y agoI'm pretty sure that's illegal in most of western Europe. In theory at least. You can't just go and help a friend paint their house, but you can go and paint a child or parents house. It's pretty much impossible to enforce in practice. If you do voluntary work through an NGO it's different though, then it's not counted as illicit work.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoWow, that is pretty surreal! Do you know what these laws are called? I'd like to read more about them, but not sure what to google for...
- cinntaile 5y agoI don't think they have any special names. Laws that regulate what does and does not count as illicit work will cover this.
- teekert 5y agoI can most definitely go and help a friend paint his house, this is nonsense, do you have any sources?
- cinntaile 5y agoIt likely depends. The point of laws like this is that they don't want people to exchange favours as a means to avoid paying taxes. When you help a friend paint his house you usually expect that he returns the favor and that's not allowed. If there's no expectation to return the favor it's fine. Anyway, these things are hard to prove.
- forgotmypw17 5y ago> When you help a friend paint his house you usually expect that he returns the favor and that's not allowed. I'm not sure that's true for "usually".
- teekert 5y agoGuess I'm a criminal then, proudly in this case.
- cinntaile 5y agoI mean... As long as it's not a systematic thing nobody will ever care.
- cinntaile 5y agoIt's important for a mutual friendship though. If you're there for your friends when you need them, you kind of expect for them to return the favor. Friendships are usually not one-sided, that particular "honor" is more common in family relationships.