Just raise the tax bracket ceilings for the lowest brackets. Takes away the tax on tips and on other workers who aren’t tipped. Don’t make it harder to remove this backwards and barbaric process from our culture.
The problem is that cash tips are one of the most common tax frauds. There’s not really a good way to verify, nor a good way to even track, nor is each instance of fraud big enough to spend on enforcement. Instead of just punishing the few honest people who keep detailed enough records, let’s just let it go
Just raise the tax bracket ceilings for the lowest brackets. Takes away the tax on tips and on other workers who aren’t tipped. Don’t make it harder to remove this backwards and barbaric process from our culture.
The problem is that cash tips are one of the most common tax frauds. There’s not really a good way to verify, nor a good way to even track, nor is each instance of fraud big enough to spend on enforcement. Instead of just punishing the few honest people who keep detailed enough records, let’s just let it go
Fuck that, either get rid of it or tax it, don’t add more reason to keep the shitty practice around.