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[bassexpander]

My uni seems to shift money around in our checks in odd ways in order to avoid paying higher taxes. Sometimes, we're paid two or three months later to avoid a check being a certain amount. Other times, the checks are broken-up for unknown reasons. It's all shady, IMHO, but we appear to get paid what we should. It may all be legal, but it sure seems shady. My father does my taxes back home, and he's often confused/shocked by the oddity of our pay stubs.

My wife's company is worse. These days, she clears a lot more per month than me, yet her base salary is very, very low. Their OT payment is extremely high. She says she thinks the company does this in order to lower pension payments or something, and said they paid a big law firm tons of money to work this all into loopholes somehow. I guessed it probably has something to do with health care costs as well. My reasoning for that is because I once worked for a hagwon that asked its employees to sign contracts stating a much lower amount than we were actually being paid. I refused to sign it, and was later told they just ended up forging my signature. The boss told me they did that because employees being paid less than 1,100,000 per month can get health care for 1/3 the cost.

Every school I've worked at seems to follow creative accounting practices. We've got at least 3 Korean businesses in the area that specialize in "creative accounting" as my wife calls it.

Does your school do shady things with money, or cheat on taxes?

[spliff]

No, I don't pay taxes.

[saw6436]

Absolutely. I work at one school that issues 2 different pay stubs. 1 stub that shows my actual salary and a second that shows my "official" salary. The difference between the two is 1,560,000 won.

p.s. Pirates is a GREAT game.

[regicide]