[sten]

macdonalds should try that...

McDs: for a donation of just $1, you will receive this nice cheeseburger. for every donation of $3.50 you’ll receive this large fry and coke along with the cheeseburger

McDs ends up paying no taxes

:)

[martinidon]

All businesses should try that :)
I found this on the GoFundMe site :

Donations made to a GoFundMe Personal campaign are generally considered to be personal gifts and are not guaranteed to be tax-deductible. You can always check with a tax professional to be sure. Only donations made to a GoFundMe Certified Charity campaign are guaranteed to be tax-deductible.

You can bet the IRS will find a away to get their share. However, I would fight it and claim I had 6000 people give me money and none of the gifts were more than $14K so it should be tax free IMHO

[bjorn14]

You see a lot of churches saying “a donation $XX.XX would be appreciated” for a particular item or event as to avoid it being looked at as income.