Quote from: synthetikal on June 03, 2013, 07:57 amQuote from: numbering on May 30, 2013, 06:12 pmThank you for clarifying this, but it's highly unlikely to be observed without the shady business being linked to the legit one. What about registering the company to another person to make it even safer?And what's about a pizzeria? It's hard to control the actual incoming.Because these days no physical surveillance is necessary. There's enough data about how much money the average laundromat (or car wash or hair salon or pizza joint) in a given area makes to make outliers obvious. Bringing in much more than the usual - especially if its cash - will guarantee at the very least an audit or government inquiry. The same goes if your pattern of banking activity is unusual compared to most businesses in your purported category. StExo is right: its a bad idea. Spot on there laddie. The automated systems will classify a person/business based on known trends, algorithms and statistical analysis, many tax authorities, especially the IRS have their own supercomputer to do this 24/7 as their goal is to rather get false-positives instead of false-negatives so it isn't hard to get flagged up for unusual business patterns if something fishy is up so you have to be smart about it. One you've been flagged, trust me, you will be visited and they may/may not ever inform you they're watching so don't think because they haven't busted down your door means they haven't noticed - the tax collector certainly has an armoury of power to work with.