The Internal Revenue Service is proposing a revamp of their existing voluntary tip reporting program and rolling out the Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement or (SITCA). Is there a problem that they are trying to solve or are they merely joining in with their labor friends in the campaign against tipping? We’ll discuss.

And the industry flexed a little muscle this week gumming up the works on an onerous mandated scheduling bill in Colorado. We’ll take a look at that legislation and its ramifications nationally.

We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.