6 ms·
FWIW I'm not going to offer an opinion on whether 20+% is a good tip, but tipping with a credit card has a lower value to the server. All tips are notionally t
by pacaro 13y ago
FWIW I'm not going to offer an opinion on whether 20+% is a good tip, but tipping with a credit card has a lower value to the server.
All tips are notionally taxable income, whether a server chooses to declare all their cash tips is their choice, when you tip with a credit card it stops being their choice - and there's no way of telling how much of the tip is diverted by the establishment.
- mbetter 13y ago> whether a server chooses to declare all their cash tips is their choice No, it's really not.
- dctoedt 13y agoDownvoted for encouraging tax fraud.
- aye 13y agoUpvoted for discouraging tax fraud.
- mindslight 13y agoYeah, it's our responsibility to fund the police to perform the beatings!
- tptacek 13y agoThat, and the roads that the ambulances use, and for that matter the ambulances. Sheesh.
- mindslight 13y agoWell then, the administrators of roads and ambulances should probably lobby to have the police taxes be separable, before too many people decide to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- tptacek 13y agoNobody is going to decide that.
- mindslight 13y agoWell that's certainly the assertion modern bureaucrats feel entitled to. It works right up until it doesn't :/
- hmsimha 13y agoOne of the restaurants I worked at would take a percentage out of my tips for credit card processing fees.
- steveklabnik 13y agoThis isn't always true.