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Waitress Gets $10,000 Tip on a $32 Bill, But One Week Later Gets a Nasty Surprise ( Employer fired her)
The Western Journal ^ | 17th February 2024 | staff

Posted on 02/19/2024 7:34:39 AM PST by Candor7

The dark cloud of a good deed hangs over a Michigan restaurant, because days after it made the news over a massive tip left by a customer, the server who received the tip was fired.

The saga began on Feb. 5, when a man had $32.43 worth of breakfast at the Mason Jar Café in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He left a $10,000 tip, according to the Detroit Free Press.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: employer; jealousy; michigan; tip
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1 posted on 02/19/2024 7:34:39 AM PST by Candor7
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To: Candor7

In reading the story, there appears to be much more to it than what’s on the surface. There’s a good chance management had due cause to can her.


2 posted on 02/19/2024 7:39:41 AM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Candor7

The story seems simple enough. She got a big tip and the restaurant had to pay taxes on that tip, so they fired her.


3 posted on 02/19/2024 7:40:50 AM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: redfreedom

There’s almost always a lot more to these stories than is suggested.


4 posted on 02/19/2024 7:40:59 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Candor7
“had nothing to do with the tip. She did receive the entire tip, she did not pay taxes on it (the business did). Yes, she shared the tip at the request of the man that left it.”

So why does the business pay the tax?

5 posted on 02/19/2024 7:41:30 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Candor7

Yet they give no reason for firing her except that the tip is “part of the story”?? Why not tell us why then?


6 posted on 02/19/2024 7:42:01 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: redfreedom

She shouldn’t have posted about it on social media! Diving further into this, it seems that there was a dispute over the taxes. That for whatever reason, the restaurant had to pay the taxes on it, rather than coming from her tip directly.

Either way, it seems like there is more to this than restaurant bad, employee good - as is presented here.


7 posted on 02/19/2024 7:42:39 AM PST by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy )
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To: Candor7

“When something this big happens, people act certain ways and if there’s issues with somebody to begin with, this can cause it to be even worse,” Cousins said. “And then it all just kind of blows up.”


any thoughts on the scenario?


8 posted on 02/19/2024 7:43:23 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Retain Mike

That’s my question.
Whomever earns the money should pay the tax.


9 posted on 02/19/2024 7:44:09 AM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Free money NEVER does anyone any good. Invest in people, choose wisely.


10 posted on 02/19/2024 7:44:14 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: eyeamok

This may have something to do with Michigan’s tip credit...

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/michigan-laws-tipped-employees.html


11 posted on 02/19/2024 7:44:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Retain Mike

So why does the business pay the tax?

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Because it was a credit card transaction, so the funds hit their bank account, and it’s taxable revenue.

What i don’t understand is why the restaurant had to pay her the full amount. The restaurant received the funds into their merchant account. They could have withheld tax.


12 posted on 02/19/2024 7:44:45 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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So why does the business pay the tax?

That's because double taxation is the American Way. /s

13 posted on 02/19/2024 7:45:05 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponent into jail.)
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Because it was a credit card transaction

Well, that convinces me. Next time I tip $10,000 I'll use cash.

14 posted on 02/19/2024 7:49:19 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Jonty30
Whomever earns the money should pay the tax.

Agreed.

Regards,

15 posted on 02/19/2024 7:52:58 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Candor7

She doesnt need the job

Get some training with that $10,000 and get a better paying job...


16 posted on 02/19/2024 7:54:57 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Candor7

They fired her because of the actions of one of their customers.


17 posted on 02/19/2024 8:00:47 AM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: z3n
Ummm, if the restaraunt had to book the tip as gross revenue, the payout to the employees would have been deductible.

Something doesn't make sense here.

18 posted on 02/19/2024 8:05:46 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Tennessee Nana
I agree....boot heels down the road! Linsey Boyd can do better:


19 posted on 02/19/2024 8:07:29 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7
I have no idea why she was fired, and it could be that attitudes and jealousy were causing a hostile work environment.

As for the business paying the taxes, the IRS requires that businesses withhold income tax on tips just as if they were wages. I don't know if businesses are also required to pay the employer half of Social Security taxes on tips, but that may be the case and the business asked that the waitress reimburse them for their half of the SS taxes on $10,000.

Otherwise, the business would have to pay Social Security taxes on 'wages' (tips) without a corresponding income stream.

20 posted on 02/19/2024 8:12:24 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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