I think you completely missed the ball when it comes to susie's post. It wasn't about advocating trying to "outsmart and "declaring improperly." The point of her post was providing some basic guidance on how you could possible take a cash income endeavor and file with CRA to actually declare their cash income. You rant/rave about civic duty about doing taxes/paying taxes yet in the same breath you basically try to scare people with a cash income stream from filing their taxes by categorizing all cash income earners as tax-evaders that will be audited. You're basically saying servers should do their civic duty and declare cash tips while at the same time saying when you declare cash income you are more likely to be audited (which is pure fallacy and delusion and borderline advocating that they shouldn't declare their cash income). Tons of servers declare cash income and the vast majority of them never get audited - food for thought!
You’re contradicting yourself and don’t understand what I said previously.
Servers should declare their cash tips as income. Servers pay taxes on majority of their regular income as wages. Most people do not stay as servers as a career and not file their taxes for years on end. Their cash income is often negligible. Servers still file taxes, as servers.
If you don’t declare cash income and your main source of income is cash, meaning you don’t pay majority of your taxes, that’s where issues of tax evasion come in.
Civic duty and social responsibility is when you contribute fairly from your wages to the Canadian government in the form of tax dollars so you can enjoy social benefits such as public education, healthcare and benefits from the recent financial aid package. What you don’t understand about that is when you contribute only when it serves you benefits to do so, you are taking advantage of other regular tax paying Canadians.