secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union<\/a>. “President Biden promised not to raise taxes on working people, but the IRS is raising taxes on tips everywhere in Nevada.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n“The Culinary Union is fighting back to protect workers and we are happy to have the support of our Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen. Hospitality workers in Nevada are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s why the IRS needs to do the right thing and go back to a reduced pandemic tip allocation rate immediately,” Pappageorge concluded.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas Rally Planned<\/b><\/h2>\n
With no meeting yet set with the IRS, the Culinary Union plans to hold a rally this week to voice the group’s stance that the 2022 tip allocation is too high. The Culinary Union will meet this Thursday, March 24, outside the Federal Building in Las Vegas at 11 am PST.<\/p>\n
Though Cortez Masto and Rosen aren’t scheduled to attend the event, the Senators said the IRS should justify why the agency decided to restore the tip allocation rate so soon.<\/strong><\/p>\nAs of last month, more than 323,000 people were employed in hospitality careers in Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nevada’s two US Senators and the state’s most powerful labor union are calling on the IRS to reconsider its 2022 tip allocation rate. US Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, both Democrats, wrote the Internal Revenue Service earlier this month. They asked the federal tax agency to meet with labor unions whose members will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":206246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,81881],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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