No, it’s not.
And I’ll bet you are REALLY popular with waitstaff, aren’t you?:dubious:
I don’t tip because society says I have to. Alright, I mean I’ll tip if somebody really deserves a tip. If they put forth the effort, I’ll give them something extra. But I mean, this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds.
We’re gonna being using aliases on this job. You’re Mr Pink.
Hey, why am I Mr. Pink? Why can’t we pick our own colors?
There’s two ways you can go on this job, My Way or The Highway, what’s it gonna be Mr Pink?
Jesus Christ, Joey, fucking forget about it. It’s beneath me. I’m Mr. Pink. Let’s move on.
I’ll move on when I feel like it.
Ever read the 1040 form? It is a voluntary tax. I just didn’t volunteer as much as they would have preferred. Now I get 25% less social security as I would have, but that is a life decision I made a long time ago.
Or Social Security.
A what?
Can I get a cite that says you get to pick if you feel like reporting whether or not you want to report your tips on your 1040. The Form 1040 instructions are right here, it should say that it’s voluntary to report them…right? What I see is that you’re supposed to use this form to report tips that you didn’t report to your employer…they’re giving you a second chance to report them.
Agree with it or not, there’s not very many ways for money to end up in your hands (especially if it’s a liviable amount) without the government wanting to know about it (and wanting some of it).
I tip in cash.
I understand in some restaurants, they withhold for taxes, etc, some percentage of the amount customers are charged (sans tip) from the servers. It’s way less than the tips the servers get, though.
Perhaps the same could be said of all taxes.
In any case, it’s hardly the pettiest of taxes. Inheritance tax? Shit, that’s just mean.
YMMV. I never served, but I was intimately involved with and/or related to several people who have. Some restaurants cash out charged tips that day. Most checks are weekly- so at worst it comes in the closest Friday. I actually knew some who preferred to have more than a $0 weekly check, which was typical due to taxes and meals taken out of the $2.13/Hr wages.
Unless things have really changed, that shouldn’t be more of an issue than anyone who gets a W2. Every server I knew had tips calculated and the taxes with held from weekly checks. $0 checks were common.
Yeah, only $5,340,000 is exempted. Horrible.
Same. When I worked as a server there was at least one place that blithely took the credit card processing fee (or what they said was the fee… not like they ever bothered to prove to me how much the fee actually was) out of any of my credit card tips before handing me the cash. As I understand it, this was not in any way legal, but when you make 2 bucks an hour what exactly are you going to do about it? I found another job as soon as I could, but it was still months.
I say “at least” because I worked at another place whose required mathematical formula for calculating your credit card tips was so convoluted, for no discernible reason, that I was never sure that I was ending up with the correct amount of tips I should have been owed. (It was definitely not something logical like adding up the tip lines from your collected receipts that you kept in your apron during your shift.) Pretty sure they did that on purpose, for exactly that reason, so no one could tell they were getting skimmed. But everyone had to do the math that way, and show your work, blah blah or risk getting fired. It was, again, too much of a headache to complain about it, because they made sure the servers knew they had no power there. On the plus side, a couple years later I got notice in the mail that a class action suit had been brought against the place for shady compensation practices. So I joined the class and got about 90 bucks out of it some months later. Probably doesn’t even approach how much they actually skimmed, but hey.
So in my case, at least, it was never so I could cheat, but so I could be sure I wasn’t getting cheated.
I just wish they would drop the whole tipping thing altogether and just pay wages to the servers.
Regardless of what you think, your tip is not a gift. It is income to the server you give it to. What the IRS “regards” as their share of a server’s income is no different from my gross earnings or yours. The fact that my income or yours comes in the form of an electronic deposit from our employers makes it no more or less taxable than the income servers earn waiting tables.
Swiped cards do cost merchants in the neighborhood of 3% in transaction fees and I see no problem with restaurants passing that along for servers in a time when 20% is considered a standard tip. 3% on a $20 tip is sixty cents. Cry me a river. If your employer is taking 10% of your tip as previously mentioned, you are working for criminals.
In conclusion, servers want to be tipped in cash. I tip them however the fuck I feel like tipping them on any given transaction.
It appears to be just as accurate to say (based on your cite) that there is no benefit to anyone.
Most minimum wage earners in Seattle are in their 20s, working a second job and are not poor, and it raised the price of eating out and
Regards,
Shodan
there’s a fairly simple solution to that.