By Marni Rose McFallShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberInternal Revenue Service (IRS) agents will have to watch OnlyFans content in order to determine if the content meets the “no tax on tips law” outlined in President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill, according to a report from The New York Times.
Newsweek has contacted the IRS via email for comment.
Why It Matters
The “no tax on tips” proposal has been a pillar of Trump’s economic agenda since before the 2024 presidential election. He launched the idea as a way of helping millions of Americans nationwide at a time of growing financial instability.
The proposal hinges on the idea of the elimination of federal taxes on tipped incomes for eligible workers. The tax cut was included in the administration's One, Big, Beautiful Bill. The president’s tax and spending policies were passed in July of this year.
This, in turn, will give a provision that allows some workers to deduct up to $25,000 in "qualified tips" per year from 2025 through to 2028.
...What To Know
The bill has raised an important question on how tips are defined. According to the Times, the IRS may be set to have to review content on OnlyFans as part of discerning what kinds of tips are taxed.
The passing of the tax law included a caveat, which is that pornographic creators and actors, including those who operate on OnlyFans, were not entitled to have their taxes waived.
There is a vast quantity of content on OnlyFans, and while the platform is best known for pornographic content, there are multiple other kinds of lifestyle content on the site, be it cooking or exercise-related.
This means that taxpayers reporting tips from OnlyFans will likely need to have their content viewed by an agent from the IRS.
Professions that currently have tax exemptions include bartenders, waiters, plumbers, maids, tattoo artists and golf caddies, among others. In September, a list of 70 eligible occupations was detailed in a proposal, which included “digital content creators” and “entertainers and performers,” which are both categories that could, in theory, apply to OnlyFans creators.
While the policy has proved popular, it has equally proved difficult to mould into a workable state.
The popularity of OnlyFans has surged in recent years. Forbes reported that $7.2 billion was spent on the site in 2024, and OnlyFans said that it has 4.6 million creator account and 377 accounts on it’s site worldwide that year.
What People Are Saying
Social media user Sav Shawz, in a post viewed over 400,000 times on X: “OnlyFans creators paid $1.6 billion into the American tax system in 2024 by the way.”
A September post from the social media user John Shelton on X, viewed over 20,000 times: “Going off of the IRS website, there is only one thing that Treasury's exclusion of taxes on tips for 'Digital Content Creators' could refer to: OnlyFans.”
What Happens Next
It is not currently clear how a review of OnlyFans content from the IRS would work.
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