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Level 3
January 14, 2026
Question

Tips income for Solo S corp

  • January 14, 2026
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The client is 100% the owner of an S corporation; he owns a restaurant and has no employees.  At the end of the year, he received a 1099 from Clover and included the tip.

His W2 reports only 25% as tip income. How do I report the balance of the tip’s income in 1120S.Is all the balance amount taxable income for him, and without amending the W2.

3 replies

rbynaker
Level 13
January 14, 2026

How do you run a restaurant with no employees?  Is this a hot dog cart?

IRonMaN
Level 15
January 14, 2026

"How do you run a restaurant with no employees?"

Lutefisk stand. 🤢

Slava Ukraini!
Level 15
January 14, 2026

@Moine wrote:

His W2 reports only 25% as tip income.


 

If his W-2 does not report all of the tips he received, the W-2 is wrong.  You can't file a tax return when you know it has incorrect information.

IRonMaN
Level 15
January 14, 2026

But were the tips paid out to him or were they kept within the sub S?  If they weren't paid out to him the W-2 wouldn't be wrong.  I don't know that I have ever come across a one man band corporation "restaurant". 

Slava Ukraini!
Level 15
January 15, 2026

@IRonMaN wrote:

But were the tips paid out to him or were they kept within the sub S?  


 

Good point, but then that would be "wage theft" by the corporation.  He might need to find a lawyer to sue himself.  😂

BobKamman
Level 15
January 14, 2026

Who prepared the W-2?  What information did they use to do it?  Does he receive only a year-end report from Clover?  No one is tracking tips on a monthly or quarterly basis? Who prepares the 941s ?  

There are probably a thousand sandwich shops across the country that are operated by one owner/employee.  I know someone who was working an 8-hour shift as the only employee at a Subway franchise, at the age of 18.  Yes, there were others behind the scenes at times, but the volume was greater than what might occur here.  The problem is he didn't have a tax preparer who could see in January that tax legislation in July would make a big difference.

It's not too late to file amended 941s and a corrected W-2.