Originally Posted by
rofly
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.
Not true. In the UK whilst working as a student, I waitressed. I was taxed according to the rate of tips received by waiters at that location, as assessed by the Inland Revenue. Depending on the day, I might not actually make those tips. e.g. if I had a lot of German or Japanese customers, who don't tip. Australians were also largely notorious for not tipping, even when they knew the employer in the UK expects wages to be made up to liveable to tipping. So I'm the one that's done it and is now on flyertalk. Trust me it's true.