Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:17pm
LOL! You're WAYYYY off base.

If you make more than $20 a month in tips you must report ALL your tips to your employer. All tips are income and must be reported on your tax return. What kind of business are you running????

As the employer, you're supposed to figure out whether your employees are reporting 8% of gross receipts as their tip income. If they're reporting LESS than this amount to you, you allocate the difference between what they reported to you and the 8%. This shows up as additional income on their W-2. Is THIS the percentage you're talking about??

Hope the IRS doesn't catch wind of this.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:17pm
You don't believe what, that I waitressed in college or that it was hard work and I felt like a servant?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:18pm
You're right, I have a problem with it in that I don't respect it.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:18pm
Again, why make the stereotype about you?

And I'm curious - didn't your mom raise you to want a little bit more out of life? Mine sure did, may she rest in peace.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:19pm
Thank you!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:19pm
Thanks. I knew you'd know and set her straight.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:20pm
Sorry your wrong...http://www.irs.gov/faqs/page/0,,
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:21pm
Now you're the one who's hilarious..........you're telling a TAX LAWYER about tax law???

Good one!!!!!!!!!

Care to tell me how to export nuclear precursors to Canada while you're at it???

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:22pm
This says you report 100% of your tips. Where's this mysterious "percentage" that you get to NOT report??
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:22pm
n/t

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