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If you give someone more than $15,000 per annum (as of 2012), but you can deduct that tax obligation from your lifetime gift tax exclusion.
No. Grandmother may give away up to $12,000 per recipient per year without incurring gift tax (which is just estate tax in advance). The recipient is never taxed on a gift.
== == There is no "income tax" on gifts in the USA, so you can give any amount you want. However, when you die, the estate taxes owed will be increased by the amount by which you exceeded your life-time gift tax exemption (gave away too much, currently well over a million dollars), not including the annual exclusion, per person, which is presently around $11,000. You can give up to $11,000 per child (or to anyone else) per year. If you are married, your spouse can do the same thus increasing the annual gift to $22,000 to that same person. Beyond that amount, your estate will be responsible for the taxes, if you're lucky enough to die with a taxable estate and gave non-exempt gifts over a million dollars. The amount changes from time to time, so check with your accountant or estate planner.
Gifts, other than to a qualified charity, are NEVER deductible...no way no how. In fact, the one giving may incurr a "gift tax" that is their obligation to pay.
You may give 12,500 a year (this year) to ANYONE (Up to a Million Dollars total), you will have had to pay any taxes as income, NOT DEDUCTIBLE for you and REPORTABLE but NOT TAXABLE for them!
It's possible, but highly unlikely.
Work for it. Alternatively, find someone to give you a million and then you give away 999,700 dollars to deserving people.
I totally would take a million dollars if someone gave them to me if they're no strings attached to it.
Then you are disappointed. That's it. No one owes someone else a gift. A gift is a gift and not an obligation.
No.
It would take you 9.10 years to give away 1 million dollars
40 million dollars
Yes, CharityChoice offers a gift card where the recipient can choose from over 100 charities, and JustGive has a gift card where the recipient can choose from over a million charities, including thousands of local Charlotte
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No.
No. If there is a reward for reaching that milestone, it's certainly much, much less than a million dollars.
buying a a million dollar house.