Mom’s Go-Fund Me Campaign for Cancer-Stricken Daughter Backfires! Must Choose...

[Slirith]

Mom’s Go-Fund Me Campaign for Cancer-Stricken Daughter Backfires! Must Choose Food Stamps Or Medical Care

http://thegedsection.com/blogs/low-i...r-medical-car#

[Deleted]

This is quite absurd...

[Jayburner]

Some crazy stuff. Makes you question stuff

[Templar 331]

Not that I doubt the crookedness of our tax code, but it seems to me that donation money wouldn't be considered income. She's not providing a service, she's not running a business, she's not doing anything but asking people to give her money. If nonprofit charities are tax exempt, why isn't this? Now I could see how this would go bad in the case of Patreons and such.

[TrumpIsPresident]

Government thinks all money belongs to them.

Whatever we have and however we get it is purely the result of what they allow us to have after taking their cut.

[Deleted]

Well the more real question is what is the incentive for people to stay honest?

[Rhine101]

Tried the link. After being visually raped by so many ads I have decided to ask for a summary please.

On my cell so no Adblock

[Cthulhu 2020]

Government thinks all money belongs to them.

Whatever we have and however we get it is purely the result of what they allow us to have after taking their cut.

If only we had a better healthcare system, people wouldn't feel the need to make gofundme pages just so they can live.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Not that I doubt the crookedness of our tax code, but it seems to me that donation money wouldn't be considered income. She's not providing a service, she's not running a business, she's not doing anything but asking people to give her money. If nonprofit charities are tax exempt, why isn't this? Now I could see how this would go bad in the case of Patreons and such.

You have to file for tax exemption as a charitable organisation at the IRS; you can't just say "this income was a charity donation" and expect the Inland Revenue to accept that blindly.

[Ripster42]

Well the more real question is what is the incentive for people to stay honest?

The IRS and jail.

Gifts are taxable. Even gifts between parent->child over 10k are taxable once the child leaves the household (and frankly, I'm not sure they have to be out of the household). Otherwise this would be an incredibly easy way to cheat taxes. No, that car dealership and I are good friends. They just gave me a car. And then I gave them a $25k gift (and it's tax deductible since it's a gift!).

I mean, ya, it sucks in this instance, but if you guys can think of a good way to codify this in law, with no loopholes, I'm sure someone would give it a look. Too bad something like that would require a board to judge what's a reasonable gift and what's not a reasonable gift. A board that would need to be larger than the IRS is now because of all the gift claims.

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There are many ways to handle this situation and she would be tax exempt via medical expenses and in fact would get more money from IRS. The issue is that the law does not take into consideration the use of those funds, specifically because people who donate to that individual has no legal obligations to have that donation go to a specific location. So, in order to determine that she is actually using it for medical expenses, a specialist would need to be added to her case. Which costs money, etc etc.

All she needs to do is hand over ownership of the gofundme to any person and have them perform the transaction or contact gofundme and have them pay the bank directly.

Oh good, so there is a way.

[Collegeguy]

Tried the link. After being visually raped by so many ads I have decided to ask for a summary please.

On my cell so no Adblock

Ya, that news link does nightmares to a cellphone.

[boyzma]

I'm skeptical...seen too many scammers trying to double dip. Sure it may be legit, but there's other ways she can get help than by a gofundme page. Plus, yes...that should be counted as income, but she shouldn't have to be chosing one over the other. Cut her benefits a little so the cash can compensate...but don't totally cut her off. Think there's more to the story.

[breadisfunny]

If only we had a better healthcare system, people wouldn't feel the need to make gofundme pages just so they can live.

that sounds like socialism/communism.

[Ripster42]

The problem is with getting Medicaid / Medicare and SNAP (food stamps) benefits.

And still kinda involves a board/some type of system that costs money to do it.