The Plunge into a Cashless Society?

[Jade]

Pro tip: If you get food at a restaurant, pay with a card but give the tip as cash. On the receipt, don't write in "cash" in the tip box; just write zero. That way, as far as the government can prove, they didn't receive a tip. The taxes they have to pay on a tip are outrageous on top of a lot of "tipped employees" making less than minimum wage.

So thoughtful, I love when people do this. Even though at my current job, the bookkeeping is more pen-and-paper, almost all other places I've worked go by what the computer can read as your credit card tips. The problem comes with the fact that with most jobs I've worked, I then manually tip out about 15-20% of my tips to bussers, hosts, food runners, bartenders, etc. So, if everyone pays/tips me in credit cards during a shift, I'm claiming a significant portion more than I'm actually making. Often it evens itself out (with some nights getting significantly more cash than credit), but as people use cards more that's less likely.