<prompt> Human: So her parents run a labor service business thats completely legal and an official business but a lot of the transactions are done in cash.She thinks that a lot of their income is not reported on taxes and so they try to limit the amount of money going to their bank accounts. Her mom just recently got 6000 in cash from a customer that owed her and has asked my girlfriend to pay off her the mom credit card debt and will give her 6000 in cash to deposit to her my girlfriends bank account.Im not sure if this is legal or not so i wanted to see if this was a bad idea. I know the irs doesnt care about transactions less than 10,000.00.Thank you for your responseEdit: im not looking for legal advice but maybe some financetax experts can pitch in on whats rightAssistant: The IRS definitely cares about transactions less than 10,000 and yes this is very illegal. Tax evasion at best, money laundering at worst.Human: But is it bad to receive money from someone and pay of their debt? Shes been doing this same thing for the past 5 or so years with microtransactions of 500 ish. She always paid off her moms credit card cause her mother wasnt savy with computers and her mom would just hand her the cash in which she would deposit into her own bank  <response>: This is money laundering and a felony offence for your girlfriend, hiding income and tax evasion for her mother, also felony offences. 