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# It is forbidden to add to a worker’s salary for late payment after the worker began and certainly not after the wage is due. That would be considered interest.<ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:7</ref> It is permitted to stipulate immediately before the worker begins to work that if he is paid in advance he would be paid at such a rate and if later at a higher rate.<ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:7</ref> This may not be done well in advance of the worker beginning his work since doing so appears as interest.<ref>Gemara Bava Batra 87a, Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:8</ref> | # It is forbidden to add to a worker’s salary for late payment after the worker began and certainly not after the wage is due. That would be considered interest.<ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:7</ref> It is permitted to stipulate immediately before the worker begins to work that if he is paid in advance he would be paid at such a rate and if later at a higher rate.<ref>Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:7</ref> This may not be done well in advance of the worker beginning his work since doing so appears as interest.<ref>Gemara Bava Batra 87a, Tur and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 176:8</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to hire someone and pay them in advance for a cheaper price to exempt him from a larger amount of taxes. This only applies when it is likely when the obligation to pay taxes isn't definite because of the king's will, but wouldn't apply to a definite obligation. Hiring them for a definite obligation is forbidden. Also, this only applies when it is stated as such that one is hriing them to exempt oneself from taxes and not that one is hiring them to pay his taxes.<ref>Rashba teshuva 686, Shulchan Aruch 177:10, Rama 173:4. The reason that it is permitted is that it is possible that by bribery or otherwise the king might not charge taxes. However, for a regular loan it is forbidden to make such an arrangement. Taz 177:18 thinks that the distinction is that the loan is a definite obligation and asking someone else to pay it for a cheaper price is interest. However, the obligation of taxes is less definite. Nekudat Hakesef agrees and claims that this is also the opinion of the Levush.</ref> | |||
# It is forbidden to hire someone and pay them in advance that they pay off your loan for a larger amount of money. That is interest.<ref>Rashba teshuva 686 cited by Bet Yosef 177:12, Taz 177:18</ref> | |||
===Worker's Salary=== | ===Worker's Salary=== | ||
