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That can't be true, or everyone would be paid in gifts and donations. (Anyway. He has to report his donations as his self-employed earnings.)


I don't think many people would choose to be paid an indeterminate amount by their employer each month, consisting of how much they feel like paying that month.


Context matters. You can't arbitrarily declare something a gift and expect the local tax authorities to just agree with you.


> everyone would be paid in gifts and donations.

That's literally fraud and tax evasion which comes with enormous fines, prison time, revocations of licenses and so on, which is why people don't do that.




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