To: President Donald Trump
Make it illegal to include tax when calculating a server's tip share
It should be illegal to include tax when calculating a server's tip share. Servers already bear the burden of paying taxes & tip share on sales when they are stiffed. Many servers are still only making 2.13 an hour because of The National Restaurant Association's powerful lobby that has fought to keep server wages down. The company I work for takes 3% of sales plus tax. For every $1000 in sales, they take $3 of our money (10% tax rate in our area) and we are all struggling to pay our bills. This is not right or fair! It needs to stop asap!
Why is this important?
Server's everywhere should be concerned as their employer may be calculating their tip share including local taxes. Servers pay tip share simply because restaurant owners and corporations do not want to have to pay labor, so they make the servers pay it. This is why it should be illegal to include tax when calculating tip share.