<prompt> Human: Hi just had a question about a recent change our new owners of the company are about to implement. I live in California and work in a tourismrestaurant train. Since the company started almost 20 yrs ago our tips have never been taxed. We would get envelopes of our gratuities from accounting in the full amount. We were recently told that the government has been pressuring them to start taxing our tips,because we are classified as transportation we never were taxed for tips. My question is does the company get some type of kick back from the government or save money on taxesaccounting by doing this?  <response>: No, the government is pressuring the company because theyve identified a lot of employees who havent been including their tip income on their tax returns. Its a lot easier to get the company to report that information than a lot of individuals, so now that the company is reporting that information the employees will actually report those tips on their returns and pay tax like they should have been doing all along. 