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A coming crackdown on $1.6 billion in unreported tips will continue the IRS' long and ugly history of targeting low-income Americans. When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the White House touted how the bill's $80 billion in new funding for the IRS would "make our tax code fairer by cracking down on millionaires, billionaires, and corporations that evade their obligations."It now appears that some of those resources—and some of the coming crackdown on tax evasion—will, quite predictably, be aimed at individuals earning considerably less.This week, the Treasury Department and IRS announced plans to overhaul existing...

A customer says that she tipped $4 on a $17 UberEats order and couldn't get a driver to pick it up in a now-viral TikTok, sparking debate about tipping expectations on delivery apps. In the video posted by TikToker Syd (@stillpoorandhungry) on Oct. 10, she references the viral "table of shame" of UberEats orders that never get picked up due to a low or missing tip. "I ordered my food a really long time ago, and it still doesn't have a driver, so I'm worried that it will end up on that shelf of bad tippers," she says in the...

Few are more excited for Barack Obama's inauguration than those in D.C.'s hospitality industry, as the city's top restaurants prepare for record crowds in what is otherwise a tough market. "The inauguration has been AWESOME for our restaurant," writes Ellen Gray, manager of Equinox, in an e-mail to Yeas & Nays. "D.C. is finally getting its day in the spotlight — Obama has made politics fun, sexy and breathed some new life in to what can sometimes be a very dowdy town. Bring on the millions. Just make sure they pick up their trash when they go..."