Are the online donations taxed? Do they have to be reported to the tax office? When we do not pay gift tax. Recently, Rzeczpospolita published an article containing a comment by Piotr Sekulski, PhD regarding this issue.
In the article available at this link you will find a lot of interesting information about the taxation of online donations.
Piotr Sekulski, Phd, tax advisor
“This conclusion applies to everyone who is active on popular Internet portals, such as YouTube, Instagram or Patronite, and receives the so-called donated. They must write them down and sum them up (…) this is possible because portals, e.g. Patronite, prepare donation reports.
(…)Even if some contributions are anonymous, we can assign them to a specific portal user. Then, according to the tax office’s position, it must be considered that this is an unrelated person (group III), i.e. the tax-free amount is PLN 5,733. Once it is exceeded, we must report the donations to the office and tax them (…) the tax office is not overly interested in payments from online fans, but this issue may arise during another inspection, e.g. checking where the influencer gets the money for exclusive purchases.”
Piotr Sekulski, Phd, tax advisor
“(…) During the inspection, it may also turn out that the money from fans was not a donation at all, because the payer received specific products that would normally have to be purchased. And the celebrity must pay PIT on the income from the sale“
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