IRS and tipping snatching

First we had the 'affordable care' snatching insurance coverage. Now we have the IRS monitoring tips demanded by restaurants that add mandatory tips for larger than ordinary dinner parties. Of course if a waitress or a waiter is tipped by your inclusion in the credit card payment, the tip is recorded for wages. Wages will be on the W-2 at year end. I hope the waiters and waitresses can work forty hour weeks without being yanked into Obama Care.

This seems, and should be, to be an issue for the nice people who appreciate friendly and good service. On New Year’s Eve my wife and I dined at a Gloucester County restaurant. The service was good and the meal was enjoyable. I tipped outside of the credit card. The waitress expressed her thank you. It gave me pleasure to know that her year might have ended nicely. Please pass the words, don’t tip through the credit card payment. Please reduce the paper work on the restaurant owner. If service is unworthy use your credit card, and tip accordingly.