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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop."
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:49:04 +1100
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 19:43:05 -0500, Jill McQuown
<j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

>It's been a very long time since I worked as a server.  I remember the 
>days when tips were not reported as income.  Then someone at the IRS 
>woke up and said hey, wait a minute! what about all that money people 
>keep handing them?  We need to find a way to tax it!  So they decided 
>not to rely on servers reporting what they earned.  So they calculate a 
>percentage based on each server's sales rung up at the register.  Even 
>if you don't make diddly squat in tips, a percentage gets reported to 
>the IRS as taxable income.

So if you're a sourpuss, people don't like you and you don't make much
in tips, you get taxed over money you never earned. Did you work as a
server for long?

-- 
Bruce
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