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Let’s focus on things that don’t dedicate us to a tip-based economy.
To my knowledge, the only change to tips we need is that if your tips are put into a pool to be spread amongst the staff, which is a common practice in restaurants so that the chefs and dishwashers get tips, then the owner can’t include themself in the people to get paid from that pool.
I dated a girl for a while in Ottawa where the owner was taking a huge cut of her tips that way.
If your business cannot be profitable paying a living wage to your employees without tips or govt assistance, then perhaps the business model itself is unsustainable.
Instead of “no tax on tips”, how about lower taxes on all low wages, including tips?
Exactly, this isn’t helping the lowest paid workers anyways as tipped workers are inherently making above minimum wage (except possibly in Quebec). Why should for example a construction labourer making $25/hr pay more in taxes than a server bringing in $100/day in tips (~$30/hr)? If we really want to help the lowest wage workers (and to a lesser extent, all working class) the personal exemption should be much closer to the annual income from full-time minimum wage work.
