<prompt> Human: I work 3 days a week as a bartender, where we are paid 30 per shift. I average 175 a night in tips. I want to pay taxes on these, but when I tried to find out on the IRS website, it says I should be keeping a daily log and that Im supposed to report tips to my employer, neither of which Ive been doing or ever did at any bar I worked at before. Have any of you done this? Is there another method? Ive never heard of this, and dont relish going into this with my employer, as Im assuming no one else does this there. If I start doing this, am I going to get my bar in trouble? I had assumed we were being hired as independent contractors, but now looking over the IRSs definition of this, it doesnt really fit either. Should I just take all of this to an accountant, or is it something I could reasonably do myself?  <response>: On your tax return, there is a place for recording tips that were not declared to your employer. You can add them there. 