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From: "Carol" <cshenk@virginia-beach.com>
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Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop."
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:44:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Jill McQuown wrote:

> On 3/8/2025 7:08 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2025-03-08 6:49 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
> > > On 3/8/2025 5:33 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > 
> > > > The customers pay the employees either way.
> > > > 
> > > That's true.  But in states like SC where the minimum server wage
> > > is  still a ridiculous $2.13/hour, it's kind of silly to have to
> > > depend  upon the kindness of strangers to make up the difference
> > > between that  and the Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. 
> > > (Technically the employer  is supposed to make up the
> > > difference.)  Counting on the customer to  leave more than a 50
> > > cent tip on a $40 meal doesn't cut it.
> > > 
> > > My manager and his wife eat out a LOT.  He had no idea $2.13 is
> > > the  base server wage in this state.  And oh, it doesn't matter
> > > if you tip  in cash or put it on your credit card because server
> > > income is  reported based on sales rung at the register.  Handing
> > > them a tip in  cash makes no difference whatsoever in what gets
> > > reported as taxable  income to the IRS.  They assume you're
> > > earning at least the Federal  minimum.
> > 
> > I don't know exactly how the IRS does it  but up here is the CRA
> > and my  understanding is that they have some sort of formula to
> > estimate the tip  income that would be expected for a server.  My
> > son was waiter in bar  for a while and later managed bars. At one
> > time one of his cousins  worked for him and the  guy was making a
> > lot in tips and apparently not  declaring them all. He got audited
> > and ended up owing thousands of  dollars in income tax.  This
> > nephew had worked part time as a waiter  while studying restaurant
> > and hotel management at university.  After  graduation he kept
> > waiting tables for years because he was making so  much more than
> > he could have as a manager.
> > 
> > 
> 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.
> 
> Jill

Well that doesn't work well.  See my other post.  5 shifts, only 2
customers total (on differnt nights).  Tip total, 4.13 over 15 hours
work (3 hour shifts)