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In reply to the discussion: An Education on Tipping. Tip in cash when you can. [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)31. You are NOT seriously dinging servers for not reporting all their tips. Do you understand IRS regs?
Do you not realize that in many states the minimum wage for people who receive tips is still $2.35. Despite that fact, the IRS mandates that taxes are withdrawn from those people's earnings based on the sales of their customers as if they were making the full minimum wage or getting tipped even when they do not.
I seriously doubt that low-wage servers are as much a detriment to our economy and tax base as the large corporations that hide profits offshore to avoid taxes.
Get real, and go for the actual law-breakers.
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Thanks for the info. We rarely carry much cash, but could easily arrange to do so--
eridani
Aug 2014
#10
i haven't been a server in about 20 years and that is a dramatic change
ProdigalJunkMail
Aug 2014
#11
A DUer opening a restaurant was shocked when the credit machine tech asked him
TexasProgresive
Aug 2014
#13
I actually didn't know about how that worked until my sister worked as a server.
NuclearDem
Aug 2014
#20
If the server doesn't pay taxes on the $$$ (which becomes "underground economy money")
IdaBriggs
Aug 2014
#21
You are NOT seriously dinging servers for not reporting all their tips. Do you understand IRS regs?
dballance
Aug 2014
#31
What we have here is a failure to communicate. You don't even understand what I am talking about.
IdaBriggs
Aug 2014
#40
It's also a window for people living below the poverty line to keep their wages. Your argument fails
dballance
Aug 2014
#34
Lol... nobody likes to pay taxes - the real reason waiters prefer cash
taught_me_patience
Aug 2014
#43