Comment Re:I barter.... (Score 1) 1168
The $500 from your aunt at Christmas is NOT taxable.
(Unless, of course, you're in a rich family and she already gave you the $11,000 tax-free any one person can give any other each year.)
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_