Dad wanted me to work for him under the table

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Hi yall,
I am sad because my dad wont give me the proper tax forms so I can pay my taxes if I work for him doing work on our ranch. He wants to pay me under the table. So does my mom. So I said no and that they would have to give me proper tax form for me to work for him on ranch. Also working for him under the table would mean I would not be able to get my 40 quarters for Social Security. I said Jesus wants me to pay my taxes. My mom said I was being crazy and unreasonable. I just want to pay my taxes but now my dad wont let me work for him because he is too lazy to file the paperwork.Crying.

*Hands tissues*
Sorry man

You said your father is rich. This type of tax avoidance isn't unusual in the USA. Might even be normal.

Its not tax avoidance its tax evasion and he was trying to get me to evade taxes. Paying someone under the table with cash is illegal in this country.

Okay, as you might have noticed in the past, am not so good at being more soft ,Polite in my wording , it might appear bad but it is my intense pragmatism coming out .Sorry and very sorry your Dad has created this degree of frustration/ sadness in Your life . So perhaps, would let it end there. But , am not good at leaving out both sides of a story .
When much younger and being naive about taxes etc. Working for my Dad did not involve money,but when even smaller did get allowance when requested for doing our family homes yardwork . So that being said , often older schooled folks inspite of their experience paying taxes. Does NOT in their mind include their immediate family, As old schoolers are linked to the idea that all for the family,when it comes to work .Before you go all crazy about social security . Old school farms were generational. You get to keep the land in the family. That's the goal. Last to die , is last to inherit .So theory is
your goals are not really yours , Your dreams are second to the family as a whole . And this is how it goes, in their minds ..period . When I worked at my Fathers business and he passed on , but I never got paid. And went home each day. Unless I took a job outside the house . Too older siblings got the wild hair . And went their way..And when he died
I got to take over the business, only 3 years before my mom sold it out from underneath me. But gave advance notice.
Those 3 years were some of the most formative years of my life. Later my mom passed and I inherited alittle cash.
But living with his business ,Taught me money management , customer relations , paying business taxes .Business acumen . Things you cannot buy. Granted my Soc. Sec. account might have suffered,in the long run but they only give you back so much of it as you age . Without your control . And hope you pass ,so they can keep lots of it, plus any interest Soc Sec. made on your money . So think it through. I had 2 older siblings that completely passed on the business opportunity . And one rsther unsuccessful one and one who thought he was successful , got a job, worked in Aerospace .Kept a 9—5 all his life, house payments etc. But I got complete control over my daily life running my own small business . ( Goals in Business #. 1 profits # 2 Tax strategy . Everything else in order after that. Think if your Dad is trying to run things as a business, You might allow for extra big extra wide point of veiws .?
( $orry if this was not you wished to hear )