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Should tipping for large parties be left solely to the customer or should the restaurant tack it on to the bill?

The new IRS ruling that takes effect in January will treat automatic gratuities as service charges, rather than tips. The switch means servers will no longer be responsible for reporting those automatic tips as income. And it also means automatic gratuities will be considered a part of a server’s wages, making that money subject to payroll tax withholding and delaying receipt of those automatic tips until an employee’s next paycheck.

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– http://www.indystar.com/article/20131011/BUSINESS/310110015/Automatic-tipping-IRS-rules-change-could-taxing-hospitality-industry?nclick_check=1