Is your church a cult?

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-06-2009
Is your church a cult?
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Fri, 02-27-2009 - 7:11pm

I was reading

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-06-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:46pm

So if I work unpaid for my local soup kitchen (or church or women's shelter) for a year and then they give me a new car, I don't have to report that to the IRS?


Sadly, that's not the way the Code reads.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-22-2000
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:46pm
What's suprising about that?

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-06-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:47pm
Well since they were going to the school, they were not aware of what was going on.
It gets harmful when they brainwash the child into joining their group to get others to join and give all their time and money to a "cult". Some of these churches have "schools" which they charge the students thousands of dollars to join.
In the end everyone loses.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-18-2007
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:47pm

I thought all this cult business was prompted by something you read in the paper.

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski 

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:48pm

My quote suggests confusion of nothing. I was not citing an article on gift tax, but on income tax.


I have an MBA btw.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-08-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:48pm
Perhaps you could explain under which circumstances a gift card from an individual is taxable and when it counts as income; or why I am supposed to pay taxes on gifts that I always assumed (and my accountant has always assured me) fall under the de mimimis exception?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:49pm

For a student to give a gift of thanks to their teacher?

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Registered: 02-24-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:50pm
No, the "personal" comment was because I asked why her kids do not see their grandpa. There does not seem to be any reason why she can't post the news story that so piqued her interest here.
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:50pm

Did you forget the part of the $11,000 limit that I also quoted?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-08-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 1:51pm
Yes. There is kind of a rule in teaching that says that 10% of your students will cause you 90% of your grief. Most of my students are delightful. A few are problems. I think that is true in any situation, even on the internet. I belong to another board where one poster caused so much trouble they had to make a special folder for threads she hijacked. She's gone now, and so is her special folder. Life is like that.

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