Originally Posted by
Analise
I'm absolutely astonished that this practice is legal. I'm guessing that it is because your tips are underestimated like you said above, why would you or anyone else complain about this practice?
If the average estimate of tips were actually more than what people take home and there were enough people penalized by such an overestimation, I would guess that trial lawyers would come around to suing the federal, state and local gov'ts for taxing on income never actually earned but rather "estimated" to be earned thus overtaxing people.
Thank you for sharing this.
Well, I have not heard any
servers on this thread complaining about the IRS calculating more tip income than they actually received.
My guess is that's because that is not what is happening. The people 'complaining' mean well but do not have first-hand knowledge of how tips are reported. Let me state again that tips may be calculated differently by different establishments, but it is common knowledge that waiting tables in the U.S. is a well-paying job (considering it requires no formal education and the alternative is working for minimum wage).
Even though servers make a decent amount of money and one non-tipper per night will not destroy a server's earnings, not tipping is the crappy thing to do when it is absolutely the custom of this land.