Paying in cash

[Jennizor]

I was a Customs & Excise VAT officer from 1995 -2000. There were all sorts of tricks for hiding the true amount of cash takings. The best one was, when I asked for all their shop records they brought me a pile of books amongst them were two takings books, one was labelled ‘Shop takings’ and the other ‘Real shop takings’. They were very embarrassed but had to pay the discrepancy. 
 

It was not the best job in the world but I met some lovely people who knew I was just doing my job. Others though were very unpleasant, one chap said to me ‘I wish you had arrived half an hour earlier earlier, part of the roof came down and might have hit you.’ Lovely man!