Tax Notes legal reporter Trevor Sikes investigated how the qualified tips deduction under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has affected tipped workers in the year since the law's enactment.

Sikes and fellow legal reporter A.J. Collins interviewed the following people for this episode:

Morgan Harms, a server at William Jeffrey’s Tavern in Arlington, Virginia
Michael Chittenden, a lawyer with Covington and Burling
Matt Catchpole, owner of the South Carolina restaurant group Panhandle Slam Hospitality
Jim Toole, a clubhouse manager for the Lancaster Stormers, an American professional baseball team in Pennsylvania

For more, read Sikes and Collins' story in Tax Notes, "Check, Please: Workers React to ‘No Tax on Tips’ One Year In."

Our audio sources for this episode:

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producer: Jordan Parrish
Audio Editor: Laura Kondourajian