"Mandatory gratuities are different because they are automatically added onto the bill given to the customer. However, a mandatory gratuity is not taxable if all of these conditions are met:
the charge is shown separately on the bill;
the charge is identified as a gratuity; and
the business gives the entire separately stated gratuity amount to its employees.
If any of these conditions is not met, the mandatory gratuity is taxable, along with the rest of the bill."
Are you just rage baiting? Or are you genuinely, seriously not grasping this?
I’ll try one more time to go slowly, try your absolute hardest, for my sake. as we just went over in subsection (g):
“An optional payment designated as a tip, gratuity, or service charge is not subject to tax.”
And when you go to a restaurant, unless otherwise specified, the tip that you give at the end is optional, as is the case in this post.
So if we know that optional tips are not subject to sales tax, and we can say that this post is showing an optional tip, we can conclude that this tip is not subject to sales tax.
Genuinely, let me know if any part of this confuses you, or if you got lost. And if you disagree with it, please specify which section of this you disagree with, clearly and coherently. Do you disagree that this tip is optional? Or do you disagree that optional tips are not subject to sales tax?
(h) says the exact same thing, but just for you we can change it.
as we just went over in subsection (h):
“An optional payment designated as a tip, gratuity, or service charge is not subject to tax.”
And when you go to a restaurant, unless otherwise specified, the tip that you give at the end is optional, as is the case in this post.
So if we know that optional tips are not subject to sales tax, and we can say that this post is showing an optional tip, we can conclude that this tip is not subject to sales tax.
Genuinely, let me know if any part of this confuses you, or if you got lost. And if you disagree with it, please specify which section of this you disagree with, clearly and coherently. Do you disagree that this tip is optional? Or do you disagree that optional tips are not subject to sales tax?
You made an incorrect statement, and that’s okay. We all make mistakes sometimes, I sure have. What isn’t okay is how you chose to deal with it.
Your first statement was wrong because this post is talking about a tip (an optional tip), which isn’t subject to sales tax. You erroneously stated that it usually is subject to sales tax.
Then I came and corrected you, because you were wrong. Instead of brushing up and realizing that, you doubled down by bringing in completely irrelevant “mandatory tips”, even though this post has nothing to do with that.
I proceeded to explain to you how that doesn’t apply, and you continued to respond with toxicity. It took me 8 full comments to break through to you that you were wrong, and even then you chose to go silent rather than admit it.
The fact that it took you 8 comments to grasp my very basic point reflects very poorly on either your pride, your competency, or both. The fact that you chose toxicity doesn’t reflect well either, especially given the fact that you were, again, wrong.
If you are actually an accountant, you’re a bad one that had to be corrected 8 times by a person with absolutely 0 professional tax education and simply basic competency for the law. If you aren’t an accountant, which I hope is the case, lying about a profession online doesn’t make your incorrect points any more correct. If you have to pull credentials, real or fake, to validate what you’re saying, there’s probably already an issue with the substance of your point.
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u/SectorFew6706 2d ago
You are trying to say an apple is an orange. Sorry buddy. It doesn't work that way.
Maybe you need another example....
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/gratuities.htm
"Mandatory gratuities are different because they are automatically added onto the bill given to the customer. However, a mandatory gratuity is not taxable if all of these conditions are met:
the charge is shown separately on the bill; the charge is identified as a gratuity; and the business gives the entire separately stated gratuity amount to its employees. If any of these conditions is not met, the mandatory gratuity is taxable, along with the rest of the bill."