Treasury also clarified what types of payments won’t be classified as tips — including meals, event tickets and most digital assets.
Automatic gratuities are not included either, unless customers can alter them without penalty. For example, a service charge of 18 percent automatically added to a bill for a large party would not be included, but an 18 percent tip selected by a customer at a service counter would be, as long as they had the option not to tip at all.
Nevada’s congressional Democrats, as well as the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, had previously asked the administration to include all of these payments.