{"id":49196,"date":"2023-02-09T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49196"},"modified":"2023-02-09T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:52:32","slug":"targeting-the-people-who-can-least-afford-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49196","title":{"rendered":"Targeting The People Who Can Least Afford It"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 8, Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about the Biden administration’s plan to crack down on unreported tips.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Remember when we were told that the army of new IRS agents Biden wants to hire was only going to go after billionaires? Good times<\/em>. If that\u2019s the case, somebody should check to see if Bill Gates and Elon Musk have taken some side gigs slinging hash at a diner somewhere. (Of course, in Musk\u2019s case it may come to that<\/a> if he can\u2019t get 10 million more people to sign up for Twitter Blue.) As it turns out, the Tax Man is launching a new program to crack down on tips<\/a> received by wait staff in the food and beverage industry. That\u2019s right. The IRS thinks that waiters and waitresses are pocketing too much money in gratuities, and Uncle Sam plans on getting his piece of the action. (Fox News).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a>\u00a0proposed a revenue procedure this week cracking down on service industry\u2019s reporting of tips.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The so-called Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program would be a voluntary tip reporting system in which the IRS and service industry companies cooperate, according to the announcement Monday. As part of the proposal, the\u00a0IRS will give the public<\/a>\u00a0until early May to provide feedback on the program before implementing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThose 87,000 new IRS agents that you were promised would only target the rich\u2026\u201d Mike Palicz, the federal affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform, tweeted. \u201cThey\u2019re coming after waitresses\u2019 tips now.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The whole concept of an \u201cincome tax\u201d is based on the compensation a person is paid by their employer. The wait staff\u2019s tips shouldn\u2019t be taxed at all because the patrons are not their employers and are under no obligation to tip them. It\u2019s really more of a gift given in appreciation for good service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that probably won\u2019t stop the IRS from doing this. And it\u2019s policies like these that have made me develop a habit of always tipping in cash when we dine out, even if we pay for the meal with a debit card. I tend to be a bit of an exorbitant tipper (at least according to my wife) but regular customers who tip well generally wind up getting much better service in my experience. And I enjoy the looks on the faces of hard-working servers when they find some twenty-dollar bills that they can just stick in their pockets waiting for them. As far as I\u2019m concerned, owners of bars and restaurants should tell the IRS to keep its nose out of their employees\u2019 tips.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At some point, I wish the government would realize that what people earn is theirs and the government actually has no right to any of it. If the spending habits of our government were a bit more sane, some of us might not mind paying the ridiculous taxes that we pay. Right now–in
\nAmerica–taxpayers pay more money to the government than the Midievil surfs did to the lords of the manor. That is not acceptable.<\/p>\n

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