Tips
In which Rat has lots to hide
Good time of day, humans!
The internet seems to be falling behind on producing silly puns about recent news. We aim to correct that.
Transcript:
Human: — Rat, this sounds like good news for you.
Human: — They won’t attempt to tax your cheese tips anymore.
Rat: — Good. Now let’s hope they don’t find out about the rest of the cheeseberg.
Disclosure: grand total of tips Rat has ever received through ko-fi stands at EUR 5. Gross subscription income, on the other paw, is currently reported at USD 911 / year. Of course, a good lawyer could argue these are all tips — and would probably be right.
The 'news' itself has become a farce. It is hard to joke about a bad joke. But you did it !
I was a waitress when they first started taxing tips here in the US. Every day we were supposed to declare our tips. So we only declared enough to get us up to minimum wage (at that time our base hourly pay was $1.10/hour).
Since tips really are income, I can see the logic. But I remember at the time the IRS rules said you even had to pay tax on barters, such as if you traded a couch for a table. That never made sense to me.