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human
ELI5: How do employees of marijuana dispensaries in the US handle their taxes if their income is based off the sale of marijuana?

With the federal restrictions affecting how dispensaries due business (such as not being able to have bank accounts), how do its employees handle their taxes when the income is coming from the sale of marijuana?

edit: thanks for the all the replies, I think I was coming from the idea of what would happen if someone had to be audited or have their taxes looked more closely. Would it affect them at a federal level for working at a dispensarie.
gpt
They report that their employer paid them to operate a retail shop.  The IRS wants to know what you got paid, not what the shop sells.  OK, there are some banking issues, so your boss had to pay you in cash.  From the IRS perspective, also not a problem, they want to know how much you got paid, not how it was paid to you.

Of the many legal snarls surrounding pot, employee income taxes isn't one of them.