You’re welcome. You must appear to remain ‘poor’. Any appearance of increased income or wealth will attract attention.

One might expect you’d make some side cash by doing odd jobs. So play the role of the poor guy doing odd jobs to pay the bills. Or get a part time job. That keeps everyone’s curiosity satisfied. Don’t trust anyone, especially people you worked with in the business. They may talk too much or may think that you owe them.

I’d relocate if possible. Remember that the government will want to know where your money comes from, unless you are poor and appear to have none to little. If your position gets better slowly then it will likely not be noticed. Gold coins hold their value and thus they do not need to earn interest. Paper currency always loses value and must earn interest in an effort to keep up with inflation. It should be called deflation because the currency is deflating (losing value) causing the price on goods to go up (inflation).

The gold is the standard that everything is measured in. Most people have it backwards and so are confused. The ounce remains constant and unchanging. It is the value of the currency that is changing. That is true for an ounce, pound or measure of anything valuable.

If a pound of butter cost $5.60 today but cost only $4.20 last year then what changed? There are only two things in the transaction, the butter and the currency. The butter didn’t change since it is still butter and still one pound. So the value of the currency changed. It went down in value. So now it requires more of the devalued currency to buy the same amount of butter. The butter remains the unchanged standard.

Butter does NOT go up or down in value. It is the paper currency that fluctuates. How much paper currency will it take today to buy the butter. The same for gold coins. They do not change but the paper currency does.

You can receive ‘gifts’ that are not taxable, if it does not exceed $15,000. You can use Google or Bing to check it. Search terms something like “Do I have to pay tax on cash gifts”?

Article:
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So if some nice person gives you $15,000 it appears that you don’t have to pay tax and he doesn’t have to report it. If he is old and happens to die after giving you the gift, then he is not around to answer questions about where he got the money or why he gave it to you.

Lottery winnings can be traced so don’t say that you won the lottery.