Taxes with Upwork and Payoneer, is everything ok?

Question

Freelance

Quite often I see an allegedly ingenious scheme of working on Upwork: we withdraw to a Payoneer card and do not pay taxes, the main thing is that there is not a lot of income per month (per year). Everything is great, maybe beginners do this until they get on their feet, so to speak. But it happens that some eventually completely forget that you need to start giving a piece of bread to your homeland. And supposedly everything is ok. But I still have a tiny question (as in one song).
Why can't the tax authorities just go to the Upwork website, filter by country and look at the earnings of tax residents (those who were in the Russian Federation at that time) and then ask them a question about this?
Choose a couple of guys who do not pay taxes on their income and punish them in a revealing way, so that the rest would not be in the habit. Or do I not understand something?

Answer 1

Actually, what difference does it make to you if there is a lot of income or not, millions can go there without problems.
Because the hell with your pennies, the tax authorities don’t need it, because the cost of searching and seizing will be more than you can be charged with all the fines, because the big fucking companies evade taxes and easier to bend them.

Answer 2

Well, give the pieces to charity
. Why donate money to someone who doesn't understand?

Answer 3

A counter question for you: you have a hundred orders in front of you, 99 of them will bring you a hundred thousand, they all have more or less explicit documentation and you already know how to do them, since you have been doing them all your life, and one order for ten rubles, and even that is not a fact, plus there is no documentation on it (but on some foreign site it is written that maybe even a hundred rubles will fall). Which ones will you take?

Answer 4

1. Scaring is not very effective, it is much more effective to count and bill all those who evade.
This requires data centers, and they are now being actively built and put into operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDmsn486rw
2. In parallel, the government launched 3 years (just before the statute of limitations for economic crimes) of inspection holidays, so that anyone who wants to can legalize before everyone is pressed to the nail.
www.rbc.ru/business/14/07/2015/55a4f6279a79472360cb28a6
3. At the same time, a system for accounting for citizens' expenses is being launched, which will make it possible to identify discrepancies between expenses and declared incomes
www.trud.ru/article/17-12-2016/1345043_kupil_trusy...
Russia in these respects is ahead of the rest, be patient for a few more years, everything will be fine soon.