@bgriffin wrote:
If I'm not interested in purchasing an item at a store I do a shop for, then I don't do the shop.
@BirdyC wrote:
Yeah; the only way I do a purchase shop for something I really don't want or need is if the fee is high enough to pay for my time plus or if it's a purchase and return (and the fee is high enough). I'll take a lower fee (or no fee, in some cases) to get something I need or want anyway.
@Rousseau wrote:
Remember, if the item is reimbursed and you keep the item for personal use or sale (as opposed to discarding or donating it) the reimbursement is taxable income.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
For the shop I am referring to that reimburses $5, the purchase is required and I am not allowed to return it.
That is not taxable income if it's a required part of the shop to evaluate the cashier. It's not the item purchase that is getting evaluated, it's the cashier, but I can't evaluate her/him without making the purchase.
@Rousseau wrote:
Remember, if the item is reimbursed and you keep the item for personal use or sale (as opposed to discarding or donating it) the reimbursement is taxable income.
@Rousseau wrote:
The safe thing to do is to immediately dispose of the trinket. Not that anyone other than your conscious will know.
@Rousseau wrote:
The item purchased, even if required, is taxable income if it benefits you after it has been purchased. The safe thing to do is to immediately dispose of the trinket. Not that anyone other than your conscious will know.
@bgriffin wrote:
I don't do shops with a required return. My routes are not normally bunched in a way that I can hang out for 30-60 minutes to wait on a return. I've never seen a P/R shop that paid enough for me to sit and wait.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
Don't you hate it when the one thing that works perfectly for a purchase/return shop is something that you want to keep? It throws me off big time. Then, I have to purchase something else that I don't like for the return part, which just complicates my brain, LOL. I haven't done a purchase/return shop in a long time because of that.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
Don't you hate it when the one thing that works perfectly for a purchase/return shop is something that you want to keep? It throws me off big time. Then, I have to purchase something else that I don't like for the return part, which just complicates my brain, LOL. I haven't done a purchase/return shop in a long time because of that.
@Rousseau wrote:
Remember, if the item is reimbursed and you keep the item for personal use or sale (as opposed to discarding or donating it) the reimbursement is taxable income.
The IRS tax man told me that if the shop could not have been done without the purchase, it was not taxable. However, if I then sold that purchased item, it was. If he was wrong, could you please point me to the applicable tax law? (Serious question.)@Rousseau wrote:
The item purchased, even if required, is taxable income if it benefits you after it has been purchased. The safe thing to do is to immediately dispose of the trinket. Not that anyone other than your conscious will know.
@iShop123 wrote:
@Rousseau wrote:
Remember, if the item is reimbursed and you keep the item for personal use or sale (as opposed to discarding or donating it) the reimbursement is taxable income.The IRS tax man told me that if the shop could not have been done without the purchase, it was not taxable. However, if I then sold that purchased item, it was. If he was wrong, could you please point me to the applicable tax law? (Serious question.)@Rousseau wrote:
The item purchased, even if required, is taxable income if it benefits you after it has been purchased. The safe thing to do is to immediately dispose of the trinket. Not that anyone other than your conscious will know.
I tuck away those required purchases in a "gift closet." Everyone in the household is free to lift from it for whatever purpose they want.