Taxing Tips

16 Replies to “Taxing Tips”

1. Too bad they got caught. If you can get away with paying less tax, more power to you.

2. So server tips are considered to be paid by the restaurant? Interesting twisting of logic.

3. Imagine what will happen when the world switches to digital currency.

   1. For the good of the planet, the authorities will be able to limit your purchase of gasoline to limit your CO2 emissions. For your own good, they will be able to limit your purchases of alcohol, fatty foods, salty foods and anything they decide is bad for you.

      “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis

4. Us peasants never give the rulers enough to pay for their grandiose schemes, do we?
   I have always left cash tips even when I paid electronically and since the freezing of bank accounts by Trudeau’s bullies I have been paying cash for meals and small purchases.

5. I used to know a lawyer who summed up chickenshit amounts with the term “Let the Pakis at Revenue Canada figure that one out.” Another accountant said he never does chickenshit amounts of anything so auditors can find something wrong and go home. You are never going to get jailed or severely penalized for a minor interpretation and you have better than a 99% chance of getting away with it. However, if amounts are significant they will crap all over you. The efforts CRA has spent chasing waitresses, the poorest workers in society, is ludicrous and the assholes should be embarrassed.

   1. This comment..by X Y- 1 day ago
      “Tips are not actually charged by the server or restaurant.
      They are gratuities i.e. a gift. Last I checked gifted money was not taxable.”

      The servers and the restaurant owners should ride that comment all the way to the Supreme Court.
      …Tips are optional NOT mandatory… making them gifts.
      Accept only cash tips..
      *%uck the CRA and their Give us our cut style of robbing the poor.
      IMO

      1. That would be a good idea if there wasn’t the growing trend of restaurants making tips mandatory.

         1. Exactly. When servers were making dirt wages, tips made sense for them.

            Now that the entitled class is making a minimum of $15/hr, and more like $20 now, my tipping is sparse and infrequent. Sorry, don’t like it? Get a real job, restaurant work has always been menial labour, a stopgap, a stepping stone in life.

            Like being a Walmart stocker. It’s not a career, it’s a stepping stone.

      2. If and when we tip it is with cash only for this very reason.

6. After the genocide, it’s going to be interesting to see what happens to ‘government.’

   I’m proposing that the first several pages of our new constitution grant the freedom to eliminate the entire bloodline and take the stuff of anyone proposing any sort of tax, fee, regulation, etc. Taxation only leads to oppression.

   We’ll have to figure out a new system. Arm everyone to the teeth.

7. These days I rarely eat out. On the last occasion I did, I paid, and tipped, with my Debit card without even thinking about it. Each time I read about something like this, or even more so, when I read or write about the evils involved with digital currency, I resolve to use cash more, and then slip back into old habits. I must do better, and use cash as much as possible.

   Years ago, when debit cards were a new feature, we all marveled at the idea. I remember the shock I noted when my bank statements showed everywhere I had been to, and shopped at. A digital tracker right there on my bank statement. I do know I plan to resist the digital currency thing as much as possible, but I’m sure they’ll say, Oh no, we won’t remove cash from society, until they say, well cash is dirty and messy, time to join the full digital age.

   Then they have us coming and going and everywhere in between. They will then introduce a social credit score system, and if you go against their commands, or say/do something negative about them, you’ll then find access to your digital bank account has been flagged or even placed in digital purgatory at their whim. This digital age will be the downfall of the common people. I am just one of the “useless eaters, a deplorable” I cannot prevent the onset of the digital currency and social system TPTB will force upon us, but I darn well need to stop helping it to happen, and feed sand and rocks into the gears from the shadows whenever I can

   . I will do better from now on, and use cash as much as possible, and always, when I eat out!

8. Another argument for a flat tax.
   And another argument for the abolition of Employment Insurance – government thievery.
   You want job insurance, buy it privately.
   Anyone for government run employment insurance is a f**king commie POS.

9. Never use debit, only credit cards.
   If someone steals your debit information, the bank doesn’t care, not their money.
   If someone steals your credit card information, the banks cares, their money. Except if someone has your pin number, then your problem…

10. As an unvaccinated person, I have to pay EI premiums just like everyone else. I just can’t receive benefits or credit for my employment hours, since I have been determined guilty of misconduct for as long as I remain non-compliant.

11. Simple.
    -If they are paid by the restaurant to the employee then they are deductible by the restaurant as wage expense.
    -Meanwhile the receipt from the customer is indeed a gift (to the restaurant) and therefore not taxable as income.
    Take that, CRA…