There's a lot to unpack here

Malicious compliance story.

Friend of mine was paying child support for his kids, his ex wife was claiming no income as she had to look after the kids which he knew was bullshit and she was working in the new boyfriends restaraunt but claimed that she was just "helping out when she could. That stopped for a year when her and her new boyfriend wanted to buy a house, so he gave her a very nicely paid job working at his restaraunt as a "manager". They found and bought a house and immediately she was "fired" and went back to seeking child support.

So he sued to have the child support lowered as she can clearly work when it suits her goals and she fought it kicking and fucking screaming, tried taking away his access to the kids and generally making his life hell. So he went to the tax office with a hot tip "I'm willing to bet that between (insert dates here) this restaraunt somehow took in exactly (insert what ex-wife made + taxes) more than they normally do per year. Id be willing to bet it was their best year ever and I guarantee you will find some very cooked books"

Turns out its really easy to get custody when your ex-wife is being charged with fraud and tax evasion.

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So he went to the tax office with a hot tip

You had me up until here. But the idea that a local tax office is going to follow a "hot tip" off of anyone, much less an ex-husband, is laughable. I've had to negotiate with the staff of my local tax office before and they don't move a muscle unless someone up the bureaucratic chain orders it. Maybe this guy was friends with the State AG somehow? Or some other senior bureaucrat? But past that, this sounds like total fiction.

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- Ok. I dont care.
  
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- I thought that the IRS actually does have a anonymous tip line?
  
  https://www.irs.gov/compliance/reporting-other-information-to-the-irs
  
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No matter how you feel about it, he was a fool to make a public post about it.

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Only if you assume he was telling the truth and not a tall story

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- “This profile is a safe space for billionaires…” gives it away.
  
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I’m 99% sure that alimony doesn’t work like that in the US. Are there any countries where it does work that way?

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From my understanding, I believe it does, in that if your income decreased, your alimony can be reduced.

Of course, this is almost certainly a work of fiction.

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- Sure, but once your income goes back up so does the alimony, at least in the US
  
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- Not necessarily. I recall a court case where an ex-husband tried to reduce alimony payments by quitting a well-paying job in tech to work at a fast food restaurant, got sued by the wife, and was ordered by the judge to continue paying the previous amount because he was clearly qualified and able to retain the job and had created the situation on purpose.
  
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Guessing both dudes are in India

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- At least somewhere in southern mainland Asia, yes, but I’m curious about whether this joke would actually work in any countries, India included. Are you affirming that it works in India?
  
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Where I live my father got a solid quote to pay each month. My mother could sue for more, however, when his income rose. So this dude, after posting this online, opened the gate for the woman to sue his employee, at least if it happened here.

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We are aware that the original post is a joke, right? "Safe space for billionaires"?! Though I think the reposter at the top might not have clued in.

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Yea that’s why I included the repost

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- Thanks for confirming. My comment wasn't really aimed at you, more at the thread as a whole.
  
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I mean, he's got the spirit? Is this chaotic neutral?

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It's lawful evil if anything

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- You might have a point looking at the state of society and the legality of that action in their country. But without any of that information it looks like their just serving their and their own's best interest which would fall under the neutral category in DnD. Thus we see why alignment charts suck tarrasque balls.
  
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Now the wife has every reason to to seek back pay & take more. She can just tell the judge, what else was he lying about?

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Depends, is this illegal? Did the employee know they where going to get rehired during the trial. Was it a lie to state they where not employed?

I feel this is morally wrong but not quite punishable. If annything the system is broken for allowing such loophole. Either they owe a part of their income or they don’t. That part can be “zero” bur current employment shouldn't be part of that calculation.

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- Also, alimony isn't a 1 meeting thing and then you're free.
  
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- Yes. Lying to a court is illegal.
  
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That just make me so much more relieved that she's fictional

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Only after the clapping subsides.

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Obvious troll is obvious.

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Neither of these men have been divorced, yet.

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Actually good but he still writes like a psycho

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