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Starting January 1st, 2023, a new law regulates the taxation of informal payments made by customers for various services. The best known of them is the gratuity paid at a restaurant, generally known as tip. As of January 1st, the state has been charging 10% of the value of the tip paid at the restaurant and included on the bill. In terms of procedure, before being issued, the bill is given to the customer, who decides on the tip value, either as percentage, or in fixed amount. The customer also has the option to not leave a tip at all. Before the law was enforced, the decision to legalize the tip stirred heated debates. On the one hand, customers feared this could force them to offer a tip even if they did not want to, while service providers thought that, following taxation, they would be left with a much smaller tip.

 

Nevertheless, business operators in the hospitality industry believe that this law will only have positive effects for everybody, as Dragos Anas ....

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