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Is honorarium paid as gift taxable

andrew7
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honorarium paid as gift
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TaxGuyBill
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An Honorarium is almost never a "gift", and is therefore almost always taxable.

If an organization pays a person because that person performed some service, it is taxable to the recipient, not a gift (even if the person did not specifically charge for it). 

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TaxGuyBill
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An Honorarium is almost never a "gift", and is therefore almost always taxable.

If an organization pays a person because that person performed some service, it is taxable to the recipient, not a gift (even if the person did not specifically charge for it). 

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