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Remember When Kamala Harris Used the IRS To Go After Tipped Workers?

Kamala Harris just stole a Trump campaign promise: to end taxes on tips.

Axios reported:

Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada on Saturday promised to eliminate taxes on tips, two months after former President Trump promised to do the same.

Why it matters: Their rare point of agreement underscores the bipartisan popularity of the novel piece of economic policy.

  • “It is my promise to everyone here when I am president we will continue to fight for working families, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris told a crowd 12,000 people in University of Nevada in Las Vegas on Saturday.
  • “This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial, accusing Harris of taking the position for “Political Purposes.”

Now, this is a great idea.

A TRUMP idea, nonetheless.

But, Harris didn’t always believe in putting an end to taxes on tips for service workers.

Nope: in fact, up until now, she’s done just the opposite.

Just last year, Harris led the charge on an IRS plan to ENFORCE the reporting of tips.

James Blair pointed this out on X:

So did Libs of TikTok:

On Truth Social, President Trump also called out Kamala’s hypocrisy:

Here’s what the IRS says, in their own words, about the tip reporting program:

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2023-13, which contains a proposed revenue procedure that would establish the Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program, a voluntary tip reporting program between the IRS and employers in various service industries. The IRS is issuing this guidance in proposed form to provide an opportunity for public comment.

The proposed SITCA program is designed to take advantage of advancements in point-of-sale, time and attendance systems, and electronic payment settlement methods to improve tip reporting compliance. The proposed program would also decrease taxpayer and IRS administrative burdens and provide more transparency and certainty to taxpayers. The proposed program includes several features:

  • The monitoring of employer compliance based on actual annual tip revenue and charge tip data from an employer’s point-of-sale system, and allowance for adjustments in tipping practices from year to year.
  • Participating employers demonstrate compliance with the program requirements by submitting an annual report after the close of the calendar year, which reduces the need for compliance reviews by the IRS.
  • Participating employers receive protection from liability under the rules that define tips as part of an employee’s pay for calendar years in which they remain compliant with program requirements.
  • Participating employers have flexibility to implement employee tip reporting policies that are best suited for their employees and their business model in accordance with the section of the tax law that requires employees to report tips to their employers.

Does that sound very much like protecting the worker to you?

But, I don’t know, maybe Kamala’s had a change of heart, now that she’s the Democrat frontrunner…

Perhaps her thirst for power outweighs her desire to target everyday, hardworking service industry men and women.

But, she should at least give credit where credit is due.

Just a reminder, this isn’t the first thing Kamala has stolen.

Not by a long shot.


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