Taxes and Budget

Taxes on tips and overtime

44 public statements from 2026 candidates · 1 related bill

§1The range of views

Why this matters: For servers, delivery drivers, hourly workers and others, this changes how much of their tips or overtime pay they take home.

Drafted by AI, then checked for neutral wording in a separate AI review. It describes the question and the main positions, not any candidate's view. Facts link to their sources.

Whether money workers earn from tips and overtime pay should be exempt from federal income tax, which a 2025 law partly does through 2028 with deductions that have yearly caps and income limits.1

  1. Make the tax break permanent or expand it
  2. Keep it as passed, with its current limits and end date
  3. Let it end, or replace it with tax relief not tied to tips or overtime

These options describe policies, not people. The order is not a ranking.

§2What candidates have said

Why this matters: Statements candidates made publicly, summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Candidates who haven't spoken publicly on this issue aren't listed.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Make the tax break permanent or expand it (12)

  • Larry Thompson CA-32
    His campaign website calls for no taxes on tips or overtime pay.2,3
  • Mike Cargile CA-35
    His campaign website says taxes on tips should be eliminated.4
  • Ashley Hinson IA Senate
    Her campaign's affordability plan calls for making no tax on tips and overtime permanent.5
  • Julia Letlow LA Senate
    Her campaign website says she would make the One Big Beautiful Bill's no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime provisions permanent.6
  • Monique Appeaning LA-6
    Her campaign website lists no tax on tips and no tax on overtime among her priorities.7
  • Paul Wikstrom MN-4
    His campaign website lists protecting and expanding tax cuts, including eliminating the tax on tips and no tax on overtime, in his plan.8
  • Aaron Flint MT-1
    His campaign website lists making permanent the recent tax breaks for working families, including no tax on tips and overtime, among the steps in his affordability plan.9
  • Dan Osborn NE Senate
    His campaign website says he supports making no tax on tips permanent and making no federal income tax on overtime permanent and applicable to all overtime hours.10
  • Robbie Mahrou NH-2
    His campaign website says the tax breaks for tips and overtime should stay in place permanently, with no expiration dates.11
  • Gabriel Vasquez NM-2
    His campaign website lists working to make the tax break on tips permanent among his accomplishments.12
  • Carrie Ann Buck NV-1
    Her campaign website says she will work in Congress to make sure tips are never taxed.13
  • Annie Andrews SC Senate
    Her affordability plan says Congress should expand the tax cut on tips signed into law in 2025 and make it permanent.14,15

Statements that don't match one option (32)

  • Nick Begich AK-AL
    His campaign website says he helped pass tax relief that included no taxes on tips and no taxes on overtime.16,17
  • Barry Moore AL Senate
    His campaign website credits President Trump with cutting taxes on tips and overtime, and says he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill.18
  • Tommy Tuberville AL Governor
    His campaign website says that in the Senate he pushed for the tax break on overtime pay to be included in the federal tax law it calls the Working Families Tax Cuts.19
  • Tom Cotton AR Senate
    His campaign website says he helped pass the Working Families Tax Cut and passed no tax on tips.20
  • French Hill AR-2
    His campaign website says he helped pass the Working Families Tax Cut, which ended taxes on tips and overtime pay.21
  • Kat Cammack FL-3
    Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments promoting the 2025 tax law, which it says added new tax relief on tips and overtime pay.22
  • Gus Michael Bilirakis FL-12
    His campaign website says he pushed for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.23,24
  • Anna Paulina Luna FL-13
    Her campaign website says she voted to secure no tax on tips and overtime.25
  • Laurel Lee FL-15
    Her campaign website says she advocated for the tax law enacted by Congress, which it says ends taxes on tips and overtime.26
  • Greg Steube FL-17
    His campaign website lists no tax on tips and no tax on overtime among the provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill.27
  • Mario Diaz-Balart FL-26
    His campaign website lists no tax on tips or overtime among the signed tax relief that it says helped block an average 24% tax increase on district families.28
  • Lupe Castillo IL-4
    Her campaign website's Values page says she supports no tax on tips and overtime to help working-class families.29
  • Darin LaHood IL-16
    His campaign website says the Working Families Tax Cut, which he helped deliver, eliminated federal taxes on tips and overtime.30
  • Ron Estes KS-4
    His campaign website lists eliminating taxes on overtime and tips among the tax changes Republicans delivered in 2025.31
  • Andy Barr KY Senate
    His campaign website says the 2025 tax law he voted for ended taxes on overtime pay and tips.32
  • Lisa Ballay LA-2
    Her campaign website lists No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime among its fifteen plans.33
  • John Moolenaar MI-2
    His campaign website says he supported the Working Families Tax Cuts law, whose provisions it lists as including the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime.34
  • Tim Walberg MI-5
    His campaign website says he supported the Working Families Tax Cuts law and lists no tax on tips and no tax on overtime among its provisions.35,36
  • Tom Emmer MN-6
    His campaign website's issues page says he helped enact the working families tax cut, which it says includes provisions that exempt tips and overtime pay from taxes.37
  • Trina Swanson MN-8
    The priorities page says a tax break on overtime does not fix the affordability problem, and that people should not need overtime to get by.38
  • Ann Wagner MO-2
    Her campaign website says she voted for the Working Families Tax Cut, which it says removes taxes on tips and overtime.39
  • Bob Onder MO-3
    His campaign website says he worked to pass the Working Families Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and notes that 24% of Missouri employees benefited from its No Tax on Tips provisions.40
  • Sam Forstag MT-1
    His campaign website says he would repeal provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill that he says mostly benefited corporations and the very wealthy, while keeping parts that help working people, such as no taxes on overtime and tips.41
  • Greg Murphy NC-3
    His campaign economy page says he helped write and pass the Working Families Tax Cut, which it says included no tax on tips and no tax on overtime pay.42
  • Kimberly Hardy NC-7
    Her campaign website's Priorities page says she supports eliminating taxes on tips, especially for workers in industries where tips were mostly paid in cash until a few years ago.43
  • Jamie Ager NC-11
    His campaign website lists no tax on tips, meaning real tips and not CEO bonuses, among the reforms for working people that he would support.44
  • Pete Ricketts NE Senate
    His campaign website lists ending taxes on tips and overtime among the tax cuts he helped pass.45
  • Mike Flood NE-1
    His campaign website lists his votes for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime among his efforts to leave Nebraskans with more of their paychecks.46,47
  • Anthony DiLorenzo NH-1
    His campaign website lists protecting the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime among his priorities.48
  • Jeff Van Drew NJ-2
    The page lists tax breaks on overtime and tips among his accomplishments. It says federal law now lets workers who earn under $150,000 deduct overtime pay above their regular rate, up to $12,500 for single filers and $25,000 for joint filers, and deduct the first $25,000 of their tips each year, with the tips deduction phasing out at higher incomes.49
  • Kathy C. Hochul NY Governor
    Her campaign website lists no tax on tips among her accomplishments as governor.50
  • Tom Tiffany WI Governor
    His campaign website says he voted to end federal taxes on tips and overtime and, as governor, would end Wisconsin's income tax on that pay as well.51

§3Related bills

Why this matters: Bills from 2023–2026 that bear on this issue, with how Congress handled them.