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Lisa Ann wrote:
> Peter wrote: > >>Christ on crutches, this myth that waiters pay tax on tips they do not >>receive is put BS. It is something that is spread by people who are ignorant >>of the tax code and also by waiters who are trying to squeeze money in tips >>they do not deserve. > > > You're half right. > > In many chain restaurants (which this wasn't, apparently), owners are > exempt from paying servers minimum wage. In most places around the country, this holds - for all restaurants where servers are tipped. > When I was a manager at Pizza > Hut, we paid servers $2.15 an hour, assuming that their tips would make > up the remaining $3 balance. Same as when I owned restaurants. > When they clocked out, servers were obligated to declare their tips: > they all knew what the minimum was they needed to declare and would > declare the minimum. Payroll taxes were then paid on this declared > minimum. We had them put it on their time cards. > Now, as to higher-standard restaurants...servers are paid at least > minimum wage...but everything else is the same. Not necessarily. I knew of a few restaurants that didn't pay their servers at all. Tips were so high that they tried this illegal ploy and got away with it for a while. But when it hit the fan, several people paid huge fines, had to provide back pay, and a couple owners did time. As they should. Pastorio > Servers, in order to > clock out, must declare some amount of tips. Payroll taxes are based > on those amount of tips declared plus the hourly wage. > > So...the server is probably not paying taxes on tips not received, > because servers know to declare the minimum tips needed to clock out - > and unless they're a horrible server, they should come out ahead. > > That being said...Peter, I can only go back to the original post, which > said that the service was excellent, but the atmosphere was ruined by > something beyond the server's control. IMO, the server should have > been tipped...and the note left for the manager, with a follow-up call > to the owners. > > Lisa Ann > |
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