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Reporting Tip Income

Reporting Tip Income

531 15059V Reporting Tip Income Reminder1 Introduction1 Keeping a Daily Tip Record2 Reporting Tips to Your Employer3 Reporting Tips on Your Tax Return4 Allocated Tips5 How To Get Tax Help6 Index8 Reminder Photographs of missing children. Missing children, photographs of

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This publication is for employees who receive tips.

All tips you receive are income and are subject to federal income tax. You must include in gross income all tips you receive directly, charged tips that are paid to you by your employer, and your share of any tips you receive under a tip-splitting or tip-pooling arrangement.

The value of noncash tips, such as tickets, passes, or other items of value are also income and subject to tax.

Reporting: Tip incomeReporting your tip income correctly is not difficult. You must do three things.

  • Keep a daily tip record.
  • Report tips to your employer.
  • Report all your tips on your income tax return.
  • This publication will show you how to do these three things, and what to do on your tax return if you have not done the first two. This publication will also show you how to treat allocated tips.

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    Keeping a Daily Tip Record Daily tip record Recordkeeping requirements: Daily tip record Why keep a daily tip record?

    You must keep a daily tip record so you can:

  • Report your tips accurately to your employer,
  • Report your tips accurately on your tax return, and
  • Prove your tip income if your return is ever questioned.
  • How to keep a daily tip record.

    There are two ways to keep a daily tip record. You can either:

  • Write information about your tips in a tip diary, or
  • Keep copies of documents that show your tips, such as restaurant bills and credit card charge slips.
  • You should keep your daily tip record with your personal records. You must keep your records for as long as they are important for administration of the federal tax law. For information on how long to keep records, see Publication 552, Recordkeeping for Individuals.

    Form 4070AIf you keep a tip diary, you can use Form 4070A, Employee's Daily Record of Tips. To get Form 4070A, ask the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or your employer for Publication 1244, Employee's Daily Record of Tips and Report to Employer. Publication 1244 includes a year's supply of Form 4070A. Each day, write in the information asked for on the form. A filled-in Form 4070A is shown on this page. Figures: Form 4070A, sample filled-in Sample Filled-in Form 4070A from Publication 1244 The graphic shows a sample filled-in Form 4070A. Employee's name and address field contains John W. Allen 1117 Maple Ave. Anytown, NY 14202 Employer's name field contains Diamond Restaurant Month and year field contains October 2005 The following is a description of records 1 through 5.
    Date tips received Date of entry a. Tips received directly from customers and other employees b. Credit card tips received c. Tips paid out to other employees d. Names of employees to whom you paid tips
    1 10/3 Off
    2 10/3 48.80 26.40 15.20 Judy Brown
    3 10/3 28.00 21.60 8.00 Carl Jones
    4 10/5 42.00 24.00 10.00 Judy Brown
    5 10/7 40.80 28.00 12.00 Judy Brown and Brian Smith
    Subtotals blank 159.60 100.00 45.20 blank
    The following is a description of records 6 through 15.
    Date tips received Date of entry a. Tips received directly from customers and other employees b. Credit card tips received c. Tips paid out to other employees d. Names of employees to whom you paid tips
    6 10/7 Off
    7 10/8 37.20 22.40 8.00 Carl Jones
    8 10/9 50.80 17.20 10.00 Judy Brown and Carl Jones
    9 10/9 33.60 16.40 8.00 Judy Brown
    10 10/11 30.40 22.00 9.20 Judy Brown
    11 10/11 42.00 11.60 8.80 Carl Jones
    12 10/14 35.60 16.00 7.60 Judy Brown
    13 10/14 Off
    14 10/14 48.40 14.40 12.40 Judy Brown and Brian Smith
    15 10/16 45.20 32.00 17.20 Brian Smith
    Subtotals blank 323.20 152.00 81.20 blank
    The following is a description of records16 through 25.
    Date tips received Date of entry a. Tips received directly from customers and other employees b. Credit card tips received c. Tips paid out to other employees d. Names of employees to whom you paid tips
    16 10/16 41.20 18.40 8.80 Judy Brown
    17 10/18 39.20 21.20 9.60 Judy Brown
    18 10/19 46.80 12.80 8.40 Carl Jones
    19 10/21 34.00 19.20 10.00 Judy Brown
    20 10/21 Off
    21 10/22 34.80 26.00 12.80 Judy Brown and Brian Smith
    22 10/24 42.40 22.80 12.40 Carl Jones
    23 10/24 48.80 17.20 13.60 Judy Brown
    24 10/25 33.60 19.20 10.80 Brian Smith
    25 10/26 37.20 14.80 9.20 Judy Brown
    Subtotals blank 358.00 171.60 95.60 blank
    The following is a description of records 26 through 31 and the total tips for the month of October.
    Date tips received Date of entry a. Tips received directly from customers and other employees b. Credit card tips received c. Tips paid out to other employees d. Names of employees to whom you paid tips
    26 10/26 31.60 11.60 12.40 Judy Brown
    27 10/27 Off
    28 10/29 43.20 14.00 12.80 Carl Jones
    29 10/30 34.80 22.40 7.20 Carl Jones
    30 10/31 46.00 27.20 12.80 Judy Brown and Brian Smith
    31 11/2 27.60 20.40 6.40 Judy Brown
    Subtotals from pages 1, 2, and 3 blank (page 1) 159.60, (page 2) 323.20, (page 3) 358.00 (page 1) 100.00, (page 2) 152.00, (page 3) 171.60 (page 1) 45.20, (page 2) 81.20, (page 3) 95.60 blank
    Totals blank 1,024.00 519.20 273.60 blank

    If you do not use Form 4070A, start your records by writing your name, your employer's name, and the name of the business if it is different from your employer's name. Then, each workday, write the date and the following information.

  • Cash tips you get directly from customers or from other employees.
  • Cash tips
  • Tips from credit card charge customers that your employer pays you. (Also include tips from debit card charge customers.)
  • Credit card charge tips
  • The value of any noncash tips you get, such as tickets, passes, or other items of value.
  • Noncash tips
  • The amount of tips you paid out to other employees through tip pools or tip splitting, or other arrangements, and the names of the employees to whom you paid the tips.
  • Tip pools Tip splitting

    Service charge paid as wagesDo not write in your tip diary the amount of any service charge that your employer adds to a customer's bill and then pays to you and treats as wages. This is part of your wages, not a tip.

    Form 4070: Sample filled-in Sample Filled-in Form 4070 from Publication 1244 The graphic shows the a sample filled-in Form 4070. Employee's name and address field contains John W. Allen 1117 Maple Ave. Anytown, NY 14202 Social security number field contains 987 00 4321 Employer's name and address (include establishment name, if different) field contains Diamond Restaurant 834 Main Street Anytown, NY 14203 Cash tips received field contains 1,024.00 Credit card tips received field contains 519.20 Tips paid out field contains 273.60 Net tips (lines 1+2-3) field contains 1,269.60 Month or shorter period in which tips were received field contains from October 1, 2005 , to October 31, 2005 Signature field contains John W. Allen Date field contains November 6, 2005

    Electronic tip record. Electronic tip record

    You may use an electronic system provided by your employer to record your daily tips. You must receive and keep a paper copy of this record.

    Reporting Tips to Your Employer Employers: Reporting tips to Reporting: Employee to report tips to employer Why report tips to your employer?

    You must report tips to your employer so that:

  • Your employer can withhold federal income tax and social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax,
  • Withholding
  • Your employer can report the correct amount of your earnings to the Social Security Administration or Railroad Retirement Board (which affects your benefits when you retire or if you become disabled, or your family's benefits if you die), and
  • Social security and Medicare taxes: Reporting of earnings to Social Security Administration
  • You can avoid the penalty for not reporting tips to your employer (explained later).
  • What tips to report. Form 4070

    Report to your employer only cash, check, debit, or credit card tips you receive.

    If your total tips for any one month from any one job are less than $20, do not report the tips for that month to that employer.

    Do not report the value of any noncash tips, such as tickets or passes, to your employer. You do not pay social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax on these tips.

    How to report.

    If your employer does not give you any other way to report your tips, you can use Form 4070, Employee's Report of Tips to Employer. Fill in the information asked for on the form, sign and date the form, and give it to your employer. A sample filled-in Form 4070 is shown on this page. To get a year's supply of the form, ask the IRS or your employer for Publication 1244.

    If you do not use Form 4070, give your employer a statement with the following information.

  • Your name, address, and social security number.
  • Your employer's name, address, and business name (if it is different from the employer's name).
  • The month (or the dates of any shorter period) in which you received tips.
  • The total tips required to be reported for that period.
  • You must sign and date the statement. You should keep a copy with your personal records.

    Your employer may require you to report your tips more than once a month. However, the statement cannot cover a period of more than one calendar month.

    Electronic tip statement. Electronic tip statement

    Your employer can have you furnish your tip statements electronically.

    When to report.

    Give your report for each month to your employer by the 10th of the next month. If the 10th falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, give your employer the report by the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

    Example 1.

    You must report your tips received in April 2006, by May 10, 2006.

    Example 2.

    You must report your tips received in May 2006, by June 12, 2006. June 10th is on a Saturday, and the 12th is the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

    Final report.

    If your employment ends during the month, you can report your tips when your employment ends.

    Penalty for not reporting tips. Penalties: Failure to report tips to employer

    If you do not report tips to your employer as required, you may be subject to a penalty equal to 50% of the social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax you owe on the unreported tips. (For information about these taxes, see Reporting social security and Medicare taxes on tips not reported to your employer under Reporting Tips on Your Tax Return, later.) The penalty amount is in addition to the taxes you owe.

    You can avoid this penalty if you can show reasonable cause for not reporting the tips to your employer. To do so, attach a statement to your return explaining why you did not report them.

    Giving your employer money for taxes. Employers: Giving money to, for taxes

    Your regular pay may not be enough for your employer to withhold all the taxes you owe on your regular pay plus your reported tips. If this happens, you can give your employer money until the close of the calendar year to pay the rest of the taxes.

    If you do not give your employer enough money, your employer will apply your regular pay and any money you give to the taxes, in the following order.

  • All taxes on your regular pay.
  • Social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax on your reported tips.
  • Federal, state, and local income taxes on your reported tips.
  • Penalties: Underpayment of estimated taxesAny taxes that remain unpaid can be collected by your employer from your next paycheck. If withholding taxes remain uncollected at the end of the year, you may be subject to a penalty for underpayment of estimated taxes. See Publication 505, Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax, for more information.

    Form W-2: Uncollected taxes Uncollected taxesUncollected taxes. You must report on your tax return any social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax that remained uncollected at the end of 2005. See Reporting uncollected social security and Medicare taxes on tips under Reporting Tips on Your Tax Return, later. These uncollected taxes will be shown in box 12 of your 2005 Form W-2 (codes A and B).

    Tip Rate Determination and Education Program Tip Rate Determination and Education Program

    Your employer may participate in the Tip Rate Determination and Education Program. The program was developed to help employees and employers understand and meet their tip reporting responsibilities.

    Em-TRAC programThere are two agreements under the program: the Tip Rate Determination Agreement (TRDA) and the Tip Reporting Alternative Commitment (TRAC). In addition, employers in the food and beverage industry may be able to get approval of an employer-designed EmTRAC program. For information on the EmTRAC program, see Notice 2001-1, which is on page 261 of Internal Revenue Bulletin 2001-2 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb01–02.pdf.

    Gaming Industry Tip Compliance Agreement ProgramIf you are employed in the gaming industry, your employer may have a Gaming Industry Tip Compliance Agreement Program. See Revenue Procedure 2003-35, which is on page 919 of Internal Revenue Bulletin No. 2003-20 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb03–20.pdf.

    Your employer can provide you with a copy of any applicable agreement. If you want to learn more about these agreements, contact your local IRS Taxpayer Education Communication (TEC) office. You may call 1-800-829-4933 for the IRS TEC office in your area or send an email to TEC.TIP.Program@irs.gov.

    Tax returnsReporting Tips on Your Tax Return How to report tips.

    Report your tips with your wages on line 1, Form 1040EZ, or line 7, Form 1040A or Form 1040.

    What tips to report.

    You must report all tips you received in 2005, including both cash tips and noncash tips, on your tax return. Any tips you reported to your employer for 2005 are included in the wages shown in box 1 of your Form W-2. Add to the amount in box 1 only the tips you did not report to your employer.

    If you received $20 or more in cash and charge tips in a month and did not report all of those tips to your employer, see Reporting social security and Medicare taxes on tips not reported to your employer, later.

    If you did not keep a daily tip record as required and an amount is shown in box 8 of your Form W-2, see Allocated Tips, later.

    If you kept a daily tip record and reported tips to your employer as required under the rules explained earlier, add the following tips to the amount in box 1 of your Form W-2.

  • Cash and charge tips you received that totaled less than $20 for any month.
  • The value of noncash tips, such as tickets, passes, or other items of value.
  • Example.

    John Allen began working at the Diamond Restaurant (his only employer in 2005) on June 30 and received $10,000 in wages during the year. John kept a daily tip record showing that his tips for June were $18 and his tips for the rest of the year totaled $7,000. He was not required to report his June tips to his employer, but he reported all of the rest of his tips to his employer as required. The sample filled-in forms on page 2 and page 3 show his daily tip record (Form 4070A) and his report to his employer (Form 4070) for October.

    John's Form W-2 from Diamond Restaurant shows $17,000 ($10,000 wages + $7,000 reported tips) in box 1. He adds the $18 unreported tips to that amount and reports $17,018 as wages on his tax return.

    Reporting social security and Medicare taxes on tips not reported to your employer. Social security and Medicare taxes: Tips not reported to employer

    Form 1040: Unreported tipsIf you received $20 or more in cash and charge tips in a month from any one job and did not report all of those tips to your employer, you must report the social security and Medicare taxes on the unreported tips as additional tax on your return. To report these taxes, you must file a return even if you would not otherwise have to file. You must use Form 1040. (You cannot file Form 1040EZ or Form 1040A.)

    Form 4137Use Form 4137, Social Security and Medicare Tax on Unreported Tip Income, to figure these taxes. Enter the tax on line 59, Form 1040, and attach the Form 4137 to your return.

    If you are subject to the Railroad Retirement Tax Act, you cannot use Form 4137 to pay railroad retirement tax on unreported tips. To get railroad retirement credit, you must report tips to your employer.

    Reporting uncollected social security and Medicare taxes on tips. Social security and Medicare taxes: Uncollected taxes on tips Uncollected taxes

    Form W-2: Uncollected taxesIf your employer could not collect all the social security and Medicare taxes or railroad retirement tax you owe on tips reported for 2005, the uncollected taxes will be shown in box 12 of your Form W-2 (codes A and B). You must report these amounts as additional tax on your return. You may have uncollected taxes if your regular pay was not enough for your employer to withhold all the taxes you owe and you did not give your employer enough money to pay the rest of the taxes.

    To report these uncollected taxes, you must file a return even if you would not otherwise have to file. You must use Form 1040. (You cannot file Form 1040EZ or Form 1040A.) Include the taxes in your total tax amount on line 63, and enter UT and the total of the uncollected taxes on the dotted line next to line 63.

    Self-employed persons. Self-employed persons

    Form 1040: Schedule CIf you receive tips as a self-employed person, you should report these tips as income on Schedule C or C-EZ. See Publication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business, for more information on reporting business income.

    Allocated Tips Allocated tips

    If your employer allocated tips to you, they are shown separately in box 8 of your Form W-2. They are not included in box 1 with your wages and reported tips. If box 8 is blank, this discussion does not apply to you.

    What are allocated tips?

    These are tips that your employer assigned to you in addition to the tips you reported to your employer for the year. Your employer will have done this only if:

  • You worked in a restaurant, cocktail lounge, or similar business that must allocate tips to employees, and
  • The tips you reported to your employer were less than your share of 8% of food and drink sales.
  • How were your allocated tips figured?

    The tips allocated to you are your share of an amount figured by subtracting the reported tips of all employees from 8% (or an approved lower rate) of food and drink sales (other than carryout sales and sales with a service charge of 10% or more). Your share of that amount was figured using either a method provided by an employer-employee agreement or a method provided by IRS regulations based on employees' sales or hours worked. For information about the exact allocation method used, ask your employer.

    Must you report your allocated tips on your tax return?

    You must report allocated tips on your tax return unless either of the following exceptions applies.

  • You kept a daily tip record, or other evidence that is as credible and as reliable as a daily tip record, as required under rules explained earlier.
  • Your tip record is incomplete, but it shows that your actual tips were more than the tips you reported to your employer plus the allocated tips.
  • If either exception applies, report your actual tips on your return. Do not report the allocated tips. See What tips to report under Reporting Tips on Your Tax Return, earlier.

    How to report allocated tips.

    If you must report allocated tips on your return, add the amount in box 8 of your Form W-2 to the amount in box 1. Report the total as wages on line 7 of Form 1040. (You cannot file Form 1040EZ or Form 1040A.)

    Social security and Medicare taxes: Allocated tipsBecause social security and Medicare taxes were not withheld from the allocated tips, you must report those taxes as additional tax on your return. Complete Form 4137, and include the allocated tips on line 1 of the form. See Reporting social security and Medicare taxes on tips not reported to your employer under Reporting Tips on Your Tax Return, earlier.

    How to request an approved lower rate.

    Your employer can use a tip rate lower than 8% (but not lower than 2%) to figure allocated tips only if the IRS approves the lower rate. Either the employer or the employees can request approval of a lower rate by filing a petition with the IRS. The petition must include specific information about the business that will justify the lower rate. A user fee must be paid with the petition.

    Form 8027An employee petition can be filed only with the consent of a majority of the directly-tipped employees (waiters, bartenders, and others who receive tips directly from customers). The petition must state the total number of directly-tipped employees and the number of employees consenting to the petition. Employees filing the petition must promptly notify the employer, and the employer must promptly give the IRS a copy of any Form 8027, Employer's Annual Information Return of Tip Income and Allocated Tips, filed by the employer for the previous 3 years.

    For more information about how to file a petition and what information to include, see the instructions for Form 8027.

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