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Apr 30, 2013 | 8:57 am

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3544quebec

Join Date: May 1998

Location: australia

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Originally Posted by gj83

IRS assumes 8% is the average. I didn't wait tables regularly, but during HS I would wait tables periodically and the restaurant encouraged us to just take 8% of our sales and write that down as the amount of our tips.

Edit:
Although on researching this it sounds like it's 8% on the restaurant's end, not the server's end...but if all tipped employees claimed 8% of sales as tips then the restaurant would be 8% as well. http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-...urant-Tax-Tips

I've always been a great admirer of the IRS* - one of the free world's great institutions. So if its good enough for the IRS then its good enough for me - 8% tips it is from now on.

*Except when they take 30% out of my Las Vegas Slot jackpots (and the Slot Attendant expects me to share 10% of my pre-tax good fortune with them)

Last edited by 3544quebec; Apr 30, 2013 at 9:10 am

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