Question follow-through · 16268
Gratuities: Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of excluding payments of service tips and gratuities via a tronc from income tax.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of excluding payments of service tips and gratuities via a tronc from income tax.
8 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
Employees pay tax on all payments that reward them for the work they do. This includes wages, tips, gratuities, or any share of a service charge that they receive. Where the employer collects the tips and pays them to employees, the employer is required t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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