Wine Event

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My friend invited me to help serve wine at this wine event on Friday. She said this guy she knows needed girls to serve, and that it would pay $15/hr. I thought it sounded cool, and I would be with my friend so I told her I would. I know this might sound really silly or stupid to ask, but do you need to report any taxes on getting paid cash for one-time gig? I was thinking I could just give the money to someone in need or church. What would you all do?
 
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My friend invited me to help serve wine at this wine event on Friday. She said this guy she knows needed girls to serve, and that it would pay $15/hr. I thought it sounded cool, and I would be with my friend so I told her I would. I know this might sound really silly or stupid to ask, but do you need to report any taxes on getting paid cash for one-time gig? I was thinking I could just give the money to someone in need or church. What would you all do?
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It’s basically like AClaire11 said, at least in the US. I don’t know about other countries. In practice, I think very few people actually report this kind of income.
 
In the US (I assume you live there), you do not have to file a tax return or pay income tax if your total earned income is less than $6,300 for the year. If you are going to file a tax return for other 2016 income, it would be easy to enter this additional income on the appropriate line, and calculate the required tax, if any.
 
If you’re donating the money, you can note that on your taxes, as well.
 
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In the US (I assume you live there), you do not have to file a tax return or pay income tax if your total earned income is less than $6,300 for the year. If you are going to file a tax return for other 2016 income, it would be easy to enter this additional income on the appropriate line, and calculate the required tax, if any.
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This. You keep track of it, but if you don’t need to file taxes, you don’t have to worry about it.

If you take untraceable income and donate it to charity and mention neither on your taxes, you haven’t committed an immoral act. You are better off keeping records, though.

What you may not morally do, however, is to take the income in secret and then file your taxes and claim the charitable donation with documentation but evade reporting the income that the IRS has no way to know about. That is dishonest, and Heaven does know when you are honest and when you are not.
 
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