The Trump administration is rolling out its “no tax on tips” policy, and some jobs on the list of qualifying professions have stirred intrigue.
Content creators will be eligible to claim this deduction for tips up to $25,000 if they make less than $150,000 a year.
Top earners on social media platforms who earn millions of dollars will not qualify for this rebate.
NBC reporter Ben Goggins chimed in on X, noting, “Conservative streamers who have supported and hosted Trump make thousands through tips on their livestreams.”
Other commenters vowed to start streaming and posting on social media to make a living.
“It’s never been a better time to be a creator — we’re so lucky to have people in policy paying attention!” said one user, Isabel Brown, who hosts “The Isabel Brown Show” on The Daily Wire.
The list of who qualifies for the no tax on tips provision included in the “big, beautiful bill” was provided to Axios and Business Insider by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. It lists 68 professions that qualify for this tax deduction.
The list is divided into six categories and includes everything from a server and a host to a pet sitter and a tutor.
Bessent told Axios this list is “expansive but fair.”
Cutting tax on tips could incentivize earning income from tips and not wages.
Say you’re a warehouse worker earning $35,000 a year, the same as a server at a restaurant.
The warehouse worker would have to pay taxes on their earnings but the server wouldn’t, explained Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a think tank dedicated to economic and social policy research, to the Deseret News last year.
“It isn’t fair. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but the other thing it’s going to do is encourage more people to become tip workers,” Gleckman said, “and we don’t want that.”
This tax deduction, passed under Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” earlier this year, could mean a whole new wave of social media gurus.