The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for lower-income people. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shed some light as to why that’s the case.
Unfortunately, credit card tips are automatically reported, and most orders these days use cards. Cash tips are still basically never reported, or are only reported enough to show that you’re making minimum wage.
Ah. That’s fair.
Honestly, it’s been a very long time since I had to worry about it, and it was all cash at that point.