No taxes on tips sounds good. Experts say the effects would range from hardly life-changing to potentially harmful.
  • Most tipped workers already don’t pay federal taxes.
  • Increasing the tipped minimum would do more.

Edit: really there should be no minimum lower than the hourly minimum.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    37·
    2 months ago

    Abolish tipping. Make “gratuity” transactions illegal under IRS code so that the only way to “tip” is in cash. Overnight, the tipped staff will quit and the owners will be forced to pay a proper wage if they want to hire anyone.

    Sometimes my company manages a project so well that we hit a performance bonus. I split that bonus amongst the members of that specific team, including prior contributors. I do not lower their salaries by twenty percent and expect the client’s bonus to offset the lower salary. If that would be craY for me to do, why isn’t it for restaurants.?

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      If you’re forcing people to quit then the execution is always not feasible. Most of these people are already struggling.