A majority of Americans support President-elect Trump's proposal to eliminate the tax on tips, according to a new poll.
in votes from According to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 54% of respondents said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support eliminating taxes on tipping profits. 23% said they neither supported nor opposed eliminating taxes on tip income, and 22% said they strongly or somewhat opposed eliminating taxes on tip income.
In June, during the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said that the “first thing” he would do when he returned to the White House would be to eliminate the tax on tips.
“Hotel workers and people who receive tips are going to be very happy, because when I'm president, I'm not going to tax tips,” Trump said at a rally in Nevada at the time. mentioned in.
“We're not going to do it, we're going to do it right away, first thing in office, because it's been an issue for years and years,” he added. “And you're doing a great job of service and taking care of people, and I think that's really well-deserved.”
In the AP-NORC poll, 32% of respondents said they were “very confident” or “very confident” in the president-elect's “ability” to address “the economy and jobs.”
The AP-NORC poll was conducted Jan. 9-13 among 1,147 people and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
