Even paid in cash you have to pay taxes. Refusing to give parents your tax id number to claim what they pay you on their taxes is a nice fine for EACH family from the IRS. You are a business if you are accepting payments from parents to provide child care (even if you call it babysitting) in your home for money. I am legally unlicensed in Ohio, and I pay taxes on every penny. I am sorry but it is a sore spot for me when other people don't.

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