For club dancers and digital content creators claiming the federal deduction for tips

An unlock is a sale. A tip is what they chose to give.

Largesse works out the qualified-tips deduction for 2025 to 2028: tips from the club job, and from your own page a log that separates real tips from unlocks, subscriptions, bookings and customs — each page’s tips capped at its net income — then the $25,000 cap and the income phase-out, line by line, with a backing schedule of everything counted out.

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The problem

A fan platform’s payout mixes tips with sales.

The deduction covers voluntary tips in an occupation on Treasury’s list — 205 Dancers, with club dancer as the example, and 209 Digital Content Creators — up to $25,000 a year, reduced above $150,000 of income ($300,000 joint). A self-employed worker’s deduction is capped at the business’s net income. A pay-per-view unlock or a custom order is not a tip. Count it, and the deduction is wrong.

$25,000

the most that can be deducted, phased out above $150,000 of income ($300,000 joint).

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205 & 209

Treasury’s codes for Dancers (club dancer) and Digital Content Creators.

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Net income

caps a self-employed worker’s deduction from that business.

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Will not mark a worksheet final that cannot be backed.

Not a reminder. Mark it final refuses, with the reason named, while an entry is incomplete or outside the year, the occupation, the SSN tick, the filing status or the income is missing, or a business has no net income. Filing separately shows plainly that no deduction is allowed. There is no override.

How it works

You, the club job, the tip log

Set up the year

Filing status, a tick that you have a valid SSN (never asked for), income, and your occupation code.

Add the club job

Tips as an employee, from W-2 box 7 or your monthly statements, and any Form 4137 tips.

Log your own page

Every payment: tip, unlock, subscription, booking or custom, and what the platform kept. Only tips count.

What it will never do

It follows the IRS summary. It files nothing.

Largesse builds the worksheet and the schedule. Your return is yours or your preparer’s.

No SSN asked.A tick that one exists. Nothing more.

No platform link.You log the payments; nothing connects to any fan site.

It is not an accountant.Not tax advice. Take the schedule to your preparer.

It never touches a payment.The licence is for software.

Pricing

Priced per person

A deduction worth thousands, for less than one night’s tips.

Most performers

One person

$29/year

One dancer or creator, one tax year.

Club tips and page tips together
Sales counted out, shown
The seven worksheet lines

Couple

$45/year

Two people filing jointly.

Everything in One person
Joint phase-out worked
Export for your preparer

Yearly licence. Your bank statement says Largesse Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.

Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Do subscriptions count as tips?

No. A subscription, an unlock, a booked show or a custom order is a sale — the customer did not choose the amount.

Do I count the platform’s cut?

By default Largesse counts tips net of what the platform kept, which is the careful choice. You can switch it.

Can a married person file separately?

Not and take this deduction. Married people must file jointly. Largesse says so plainly.

Is this tax advice?

No. It follows the IRS’s published summary and gives you the schedule to back it.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before you file

The invented dancer has a W-2 club job and a fan page with platform fees, unlocks and a custom order that are not tips, a page whose net income caps the deduction, income $12,000 over the line, a tip dated the year before, and one with no source.

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