New Ruling: IRS Can Tax Payments To Egg Donors As\u00a0Income<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nIt is important to relay that egg donation is not an instantaneous process.\u00a0 It entails medical and psychological screening, injections to trigger multiple ovum and lastly, surgically harvesting these eggs for fertilization.<\/p>\n
Nitti writes, this, \u201c\u2026has led to a rather big tax conundrum:\u00a0do the amounts received by\u00a0the donor in exchange for her eggs constitute taxable income?\u201d He continues, \u201cThe issue has been a huge topic of conversation on egg donor message boards (yes, there is such a thing) and in the fertility industry at large. And for good reason: because until today, there was no answer. Hours ago, however, that all changed, when the Tax Court concluded that amounts received by a donor\u00a0represented taxable compensation income.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nitti reports, “The tax consequences of dealing in the human body are largely unsettled, and they probably should <\/em>be.\u201d He continues, \u201cAs a result, the IRS and the courts have tread lightly in establishing such precedent. In fact, over 100 years of tax law reveals little\u00a0more clarity about the tax consequences of dealing in the human\u00a0body than\u00a01) breast milk is considered property, the donation of which may result in a charitable contribution,\u00a0and 2)\u00a0donating blood may be either the sale of property or the performance of a service, dependig on the court.\u201d<\/p>\nThis all recently changed when the United States Tax Court decided on taxable income in Perez v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue,<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\nNichelle Perez,a California resident, and she entered into a contract with a California-based agency to help a woman conceive.\u00a0 The case states in 2009 she underwent two donation cycles and earned $20,000.\u00a0 Two contracts were drafted: one for Donor Source International, LLC and the anonymous intended parent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe contract with Donor Source made clear that Perez was not selling her eggs, intimating instead that she was being compensated for her physical suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Section 61 of the IRS code defines gross income from however it is derived, \u201cincluding compensation for services,\u201d there is an exemption.<\/p>\n
The code exemption indicates that, \u201cSection 104(a)(2), however, which excludes from taxable income the amount of any damages (other than punitive damages) received on account of personal injuries or physical sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perez fought hard, claiming that her compensation was from the egg donation process which involved physical sickness.<\/p>\n
Nitti goes on to say that Perez did not report the $20,000 of taxable income, despite the fact that Donor Source issued her a 1099 tax form in that amount.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IRS disagreed, arguing that regardless of the contractual language, the $20,000 Perez received was in exchange for services provided; <\/em>in essence, <\/em>while Perez may not have been selling her eggs, she was providing a service when she went through the process of donating her eggs,\u201d Nitti reports. \u201cThe tax law is harsh and unforgiving, and often times, precedent must be decided with an eye towards the future, and with consideration of the inevitable abuse of the authority established by enterprising taxpayers.\u00a0 Thus, while the decision in Perez <\/em>is sure to be unpopular, it was the correct one.\u201d<\/p>\nSo there you have it.\u00a0 The swing of the gavel echoed taxation for egg donation.<\/p>\n
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