Tipping for Services
Tipping rules and awkward and embarrassing situations.

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Local Tipping

The rest of your party might be oblivious but, inside you, tipping for services is making you feel stressed and embarrassed. 

Best tipping service is not easy to grab and the issue is even more challenging when the situations are uncommon or unusual. 

Local tipping is not mandatory, but we are highly frowned upon if we don't tip or tip poorly.

Appropriate or nice tipping is expected by most members of the service industry. 

Hotel tipping, casino tipping, massage tipping, cab tipping, hair salon tipping, manicure tipping, restaurant tipping, everywhere we go we are solicited.

While most people feel confident when tipping a waiter, many feel far less secure when it comes to offering a tip in other and various tipping situations.

Nice Tipping

Presenting a tip can be awkward. Fortunately, technology has made it a little easier with the tip option on credit and debit cards.

We suggest you do your tipping calculation before you present your card for payment. 

A good rule of thumb in local tipping is to add the two taxes. 

Tip a round tax amount for good service. For great service, you may add another 5% to 10%.

Rules for Tipping

Who's Paying? Who's Tipping? If you are buying and someone offers to look after the tipping percentage, tell them they can buy next time and pay the whole amount. It prevents any uneasiness about them seeing the bill and about you worrying that they will be stingy on the tip.

Best Tipping for Services

Tipping Before Tax or Tipping on Tax? Regular tipping rules expect us to tip 15% before tax. Tips may be calculated before tax, but many people prefer to use the total amount of the bill. On the receipt, the taxes normally appear after the subtotal, on two separate lines.

In Quebec, Revenu Quebec administers the GST, the federal Goods and Services Tax in English or the TPS, the Taxe sur les produits et services en français. 

The GST / TPS is calculated on the selling price at the rate of 5%. Since January 1, 2012, both taxes - federal and provincial - come out to roughly 15% (14.98%) before taxes.  

Since January 1, 2013, the QST, the Quebec Sales Tax in English, the TVQ, the Taxe de vente du Quebec en français is now calculated on the selling price, without having to add the GST / TVS before the calculation. To ensure that the total taxes payable remain the same, that is 15%, the QST / TPS has been increased to 9.975%. 

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