MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

Is Paying Your Kids in the Business Legit?

18 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by MARK KOHLER. This content was uploaded by MARK KOHLER. This is a YouTube video titled "Is Paying Your Kids in the Business Legit?" (created 2025-10-18T22:00:25Z). The excerpt is a single-speaker monologue responding to a viewer comment about paying children for work in a family business. The speaker defends paying kids for simple tasks (emptying trash, sweeping, picking up nails, doing social media), framing it as legitimate, honest, ethical, a way to teach work ethic, and noting potential tax write-offs, while challenging critics and referencing a prior video.

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All right, I want to respond to another comment below. Let me get this straight. It may be legal but it's not legit, honest or ethical. If it's not legit, honest or ethical, then it's not legal. Are you kidding me? Let me see legit. I want to pay my kids for helping in the frickin business. I don't care what kind of business you have. They can at least empty the trash, vacuum the floor, sweep a floor, help pick up nails at a construction site, do social media, do something. Teach your kids how to work. That's legit. Then you're going to pay them for their services. That is integrity. That's honesty. And maybe we'll just teach them something. Oh and at the end of the day you get a write off which is legal because it is. Let me get ethical, honest and legit. Did I say something wrong in my first video.