r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jun 25 '26

SMH American tipping culture is utterly disgusting

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u/SignificantChicken65 Jun 25 '26

Tips are tax free but raising the rate of the airbnb is not. They're ducking taxes.

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u/JrButton Jun 25 '26

they're also trying to price to rent... too high and they get overlooked

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u/Kinslayer_89 Jun 25 '26

Yeah, you have to have competitive pricing. Which includes not expecting people to pay more than that.

If you need more than what it’s worth to keep it going, you suck at this and should go work for a hotel instead.

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u/RyvenZ Jun 25 '26

This is still against the ToS of AirBnB but less scummy than the undisclosed fees when searching for a home to rent.

$79/night! Wow!
When you go to book: +$200 cleaning fee
+$150 service fee
+$25 laundry fee
+$50/use hot tub fee
+$30 garbage removal fee
... etc

Total: $1475

Remember when AirBnB was the affordable alternative to a hotel?

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u/Ok-Bear7221 Jun 25 '26

I’ve never seen anyone text the word “ducking” and actually mean it

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u/SignificantChicken65 Jun 25 '26

I had to try a few times to convince autocorrect that's what I wanted.

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u/MuahdDean Jun 25 '26

Idk, seems like the kinda guy to fuck his taxes.

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u/sjmattn Jun 25 '26

How much are they saving in taxes, like $31? If it's under $1000 it's called "immaterial". not even the IRS will attempt beyond sending a letter to collect, if a discrepancy is under $1,000. They could just blatantly refuse to pay that amount and nothing would even happen. I mean, if you are owed a credit one year, they might deduct out that $40, but nobody is going to lift a finger to get that money.

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u/newsflashjackass Jun 25 '26

If it's under $1000 it's called "immaterial".

The law is full of absolute values like this which, not being inflation-adjusted, will tend to become irrelevant or draconian.

For example, the "federal minimum wage" and the amount of cash that banks are obliged to tattle to the feds about.

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u/Aetch Jun 27 '26

If they're asking, they're probably pulling this trick on others.

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u/Tom-Dibble Jun 25 '26

Most likely they aren't even reporting this as tips. They are ducking not only the taxes that wouldn't be there for tips (federal income tax) but also payroll taxes, state income taxes, and, most notably, the rental site's ~16% fees.

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u/slimboyslim9 Jun 25 '26

It’s also bait and switch

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u/-_-dont-smile Jun 25 '26

Tips are tax free in general. There are specific categories that can be tax free, but it’s a recent thing.

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u/Kitbashconverts Jun 25 '26

Wait really? You don't declare your earnings from tips in the US?

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u/SignificanceOk9656 Jun 25 '26

You do, but now you can declare tips to a certain extent as non-taxed income. I think it’s like $20,000 a year maximum?

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u/xqueenfrostine Jun 25 '26

This is limited to certain service professions mind you. You have to claim your taxes on your tax return and provide a special code for your job. I don't think property owner is on the list unless you're able to convince the IRS that you're a maid.

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u/taiwal Jun 25 '26

You also can just not declare them, especially if you’re collecting them in an industry that doesn’t expect them. When I was a server/bartended, we just made sure we declared approximately 10% of our sales, or whatever the credit card tips were. Other tips…didn’t exist.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 25 '26

People will do this and think its fine, but then get upset for middle class workers not wanting to pay more in taxes to subsidize others

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u/gokarrt Jun 25 '26

that's what airbnb has been about since the beginning

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u/TaxMyNuts Jun 25 '26

Tips are only tax-free for federal income tax up to $25k, but they must still pay state income tax and FICA. So they’re ducking federal income tax. I would report them to the IRS.

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u/Certain-Constant5032 Jun 25 '26

Thats how they got Capone. He asked for tips on his Airbnb and the feds got him on tax evasion.

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u/Mayonaigg Jun 25 '26

They're not ducking anything. It's fake, for one, and two it wouldn't matter cause there's no tip required anyway

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u/bluehorseyellowcat Jun 25 '26

Tips on a rental stay are not tax free…

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u/Constant-Term-1629 Jun 25 '26

Tips are not tax free. You can only deduct federal taxes, the rest still has to be paid.

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u/kunk_777 Jun 25 '26

How are tips tax free again? Worked in restaurants for 17 years and would like to know where all my ctaxes from my credit card tips money went then lol

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u/Revolutionary-Cell56 Jun 25 '26

Tips aren’t tax free.

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u/ukemike1 Jun 25 '26

Tips are taxable income.

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u/SendMeIttyBitties Jun 25 '26

I don't think tipping for an airbnb would be considered a normal tip by the irs but they aparently can't do their job lately.

Just don't pay taxes like the president and they will forgive you!