How does Adrian Toomes hide his earnings from the IRS?
I may need some help on how to word this question, but essentially I want to know what Toomes' cover was for his career.
Early in the film, we learn his latest construction gig has been taken over by The Department of Damage Control. We see this leads him to go into the illegal arms deal business for 8 years (until the film's present day). Obviously he isn't writing that on his W4.
Theoretically, he could continue what he was doing and get new gigs doing clean-up around the city; however, given that the average foreman salary is around $60,000, this seems unlikely to cover the large amounts of money coming in from the weapons sales. We also learn he lives in a fairly large (for NYC suburb standards) home, owns a fancy car, and puts his child into private school. This would be unusual for someone whose yearly income is in the under $100,000 range.
If his wife, Doris Toomes, was the main breadwinner for the family and the reason for having this plush life (which we do not learn at all in the film), it seems unlikely that Adrian would be so desperate as to do something illegal for his family to make money, since they wouldn't be in a terrible financial situation.
What was Adrian Toomes' job on a tax form?
Best Answer
The movie never goes into detail, but most likely Toomes had a "front" business that he claimed as the source of his income. This problem isn't really very new or unusual -- anyone involved in illegal activities as their primary source of income has to figure it out, and there's certainly plenty of those people. There are, in deed, entire underground industries to support those people, including money laundering, "creative" accountants, etc.
Toome's family thought that he had an important, high-paying job that required him to travel a lot. He could have told him that was some kind of sales person, or that his old business was expanding, or any number of things. And Toomes isn't required to report where he got his money from to the IRS, only how much. If that was all income from businesses, it's going to be self-reported, and as long as he paid his self-employment taxes the IRS would have no reason to suspect anything was off.
Just as a guess, I would expect that Toomes probably kept his cleanup business open, and just supplemented his income with the weapons sales. That would explain why he had all the same crew, warehouse, equipment, etc. that his old job required.
Remember that Damage Control only took over the jobs involving non-human technology. The city granted them exclusive rights to those jobs. The regular demolition and cleanup crews in NYC would keep bidding on all the mundane jobs that were around before the Avengers, so it wouldn't be suspicious at all for Toomes to still have his company and have a bunch of guys on payroll. (For all we know, they kept actually doing that work every so often as a cover.)
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