Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received...
by xref on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:55PM
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Breezing past your suggestion that workers should do some tax fraud, not reporting your tips also lowers your social security earnings which is going to lower your payouts as well.
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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received...
by sneak on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:25AM
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Anyone who is doing an unskilled job that receives some component of their tips in cash is already “do[ing] some tax fraud”. Perhaps I am projecting my familiarity with the food service industry onto others; if you were not aware, this is the overwhelming norm with a rate of occurrence approaching 100%.
If you are working a laborious job and you get cash tips, they go into your pocket. Full stop. To assert otherwise is to be simply unaware of the realities. No one scraping by with cash tips is summing them for their 1040. No one.
Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received...
by jki275 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:27AM
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Not everyone. I agree with you that it's very common, but an guarantee you from experience it's not 100%.