Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop." Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:49:04 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:49:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ba78f42364f8624a89ae735849231f5"; logging-data="428336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2ApKYQMMwzsgbbB1p4xmt" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5RKPRFUVEaaKT6odOV9eMnHLVLY= Bytes: 2264 On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 19:43:05 -0500, Jill McQuown 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