Washington – In a surprise decision, the Senate led by the Republicans quickly adopted the “Tipsome Tuesday Law on Tuesday, giving his official approval an idea that has gained ground since President Donald Trump campaigned in 2024.
The legislation would create a new tax deduction of maximum value of $ 25,000 for advice, limited to cash advice that workers report to employers for restraint on payroll taxes. Tax relief is also limited to employees who win earn $ 160,000 or less in 2025, an amount that will increase with inflation in the coming years.
It was introduced in January by Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a bipartite group of co-workers, including the two Democratic senators of Nevada, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto.
Rosen raised the bill to the Senate for a request for “unanimous consent” on Tuesday, which means that any individual senator can block it. The process is generally used for more banal questions, and invoices are systematically called and thwarted by an objection. The substantial tax invoices generally follow a more complex process. But in this case, none of the 99 other senators opposed Rosen’s proposal, which led the legislation to adopt.
“Nevada has more tilting workers per capita than any other state. This bill would therefore mean immediate financial relief for countless workers’ families,” said Rosen. “” No tax on advice “was one of President Trump’s key promises to the American people, whom he revealed in my state of Nevada. And I am not afraid to embrace a good idea, wherever it comes.”
The bill is now going to the House, where the Republicans have sought to include a version of the proposal in their party party package for Trump’s agenda. But the broad democratic support for the idea provides GOP leaders with options, including the possibility of passing it separately and withdrawing it from wider legislation to reduce the cost or spend money elsewhere.
“Whether it adopts a free position or as part of the largest bill in one way or another,” no tax on tips “will become the law and will give real relief to the Americans who work hard,” said Cruz on the ground. “I am therefore proud of what the Senate has just done, and I recommend Democrats and the Republicans, even at a time of partisan division, meeting and accepting this common sense policy.”
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., also celebrated the adoption of the legislation on Tuesday, credit Rosen.
“The Americans who work – from the servers to the barmans, the delivery drivers and everything else – work hard for each dollar they win and are those who deserve tax reductions, not ultra -rich,” Schumer said in a press release. “While President Trump and the Republicans are pushing tax alternatives for billionaires and knocking on the middle class with the bill, the Democrats in the Senate are strong to protect families from American workers.”
