gift to retiring employee
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:00 pm
Our church custodian is retiring and the personnel committee has asked that he be given a monetary gift of $1000.00 and they have instructed me to write him a check for that amount. I'm not sure if I did it correctly, however, I made a new item description in Payroll called "gift" and showed it as tax deductible so that necessary taxes be deducted. There were several asking why I just didn't write the check for $1000.00 as a one time gift. With having no experience on this issue, I researched and found that this should be a taxable item and treated it that way. Was I wrong in the way I handled this or should I have given him a check for $1000.00 and told him to show it on his income tax. I thought the way I did it I could include it on his W-2.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?