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(06-08-2024, 01:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Which again raises questions about the nature of said gifts. Is staying for free at a resort something you have to pay taxes for? Is hitching a ride on a private jet something you pay taxes for?
I'm also curious why you're only curious about Justice Thomas and no one else's gifts.
No I would be curious about all of them but based on some of the reporting, Thomas's gifts are the ones most likely to have exceeded the $10,000 level for IRS purposes
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Hat off to M.Rehnquist and M.Kavanaugh for the small amounts of gifts they accepted ( I suppose it's beer for Kavanaugh and I guess you can buy a man a drink even if he's SCOTUS )
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(06-08-2024, 12:26 PM)pally Wrote: I'd be curious if Justice Thomas declared these "gifts" on his taxes.
(06-08-2024, 01:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Which again raises questions about the nature of said gifts. Is staying for free at a resort something you have to pay taxes for? Is hitching a ride on a private jet something you pay taxes for?
Ahem. *cracks knuckles* I may be trying to get out of the accounting world, but I am still in it currently and of course have the background for this sort of thing.
So, gifts are taxable, but the tax is not paid by the recipient. Rather, the person giving the gift is responsible for reporting them on their returns and paying a tax. There is an excluded amount, which in 2024 is up to $18,000 and has been raising by $1,000/year for a little over a decade now. With this being the case, any gifts received by Thomas by an individual donor that exceeded the amount for the exclusion in a year would have to be recorded on the donor's tax returns. So if the resort stay and private jet were gifted by the same individual and the FMV exceeded the year's exclusion amount, then they would have to pay taxes on it.
Gift taxes are very annoying.
(06-08-2024, 01:44 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: If Trump wins, think Thomas will retire?
100%. If Trump wins (especially if the GOP takes the Senate), both Trump and Alito will retire.
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