{"id":302,"date":"2009-01-20T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-01-20T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T14:28:44","slug":"2008-form-w-2-tips-part-9-box-8-allocated-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/01\/2008-form-w-2-tips-part-9-box-8-allocated-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Form W-2 Tips, Part 9, Box 8 Allocated Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">This is one in a continuing series on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/fw2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2008 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement<\/a>, which employers must generally furnish to employees no later than February 2, 2009. Forms mailed on the due date are considered furnished if properly addressed. Employers unable to meet that deadline may file a request for extension of time to furnish the forms. Today we review Box 8, allocated tips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">Box<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\"> 8<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\"> shows the amount of allocated tips. Large food and beverage establishments use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/f8027.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form 8027, Employee\u2019s Annual Information Return of Tip Income and Allocated Tips<\/a> to determine the amount of tips to report in Box 8. A large food and beverage establishment meets all three of the following criteria:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Food or beverage is provided for consumption on the premises.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Tipping is a customary practice.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">More than 10 employees who work more than 80 hours were normally employed on a typical business day during the preceding calendar year.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">The amount in this box is <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">not<\/strong> to be reported in Boxes 1, 3, 5, or 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\">The next topic in this continuing series will be Box 9, advance EIC payment. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> with any questions on the 2008 Form W-2.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one in a continuing series on the 2008 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, which employers must generally furnish to employees no later than February 2, 2009. Forms mailed on the due date are considered furnished if properly addressed. Employers unable to meet that deadline may file a request for extension of time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,717,721,722,718,224,720],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}