Petition · HM Treasury

Stop income tax on employees' tips in hospitality industry

Closed 61 signatures

What the petition asks

Tips help an industry already on its knees, desperately trying to keep staff willing to work in hospitality after the fallout of Covid and Brexit. Tips help small businesses keep hardworking teams employed when they can't afford to raise their wages due to spiralling costs and economic climate.
Hospitality is a hard industry which many people couldn’t cope working in. We call for the Government to allow for some spontaneous gratuity of one human to another without a punishing tax that proportionally raises very little for the public purse yet is very detrimental to the hospitality industry and its workers.

Timeline

10 Dec 2025 Petition opened for signatures
10 Jun 2026 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 61
Status Closed
Department HM Treasury
Opened 10 Dec 2025
Closed 10 Jun 2026

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 17 Aug 2026.