re: this has turned out to be a really lame oil spill.

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From what I've heard, a lot of fisherman are not getting paid bc they cannot provide tax documents to verify what they made. I wonder why they do not want to provide tax documents....

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bingo

they don't have good tax and/or trip ticket records

the majority of this is due to their desire to avoid paying taxes (either doing cash transactions off the books, or just simply not reporting income)