Honestly, how unreasonable am I being?
Posted by
Marlowe
Jul 30 '20, 18:34
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I will try to make it short. Probably will fail.
My Dad had 3 siblings, and we are 7 cousins, including me and my sister.
My youngest aunt died quite a few years ago. She had sold some land, but there were adjustments to be made on what she was due to receive. So her husband got the money from the land sale, but for *reasons* he gave up on the claim to those adjustments, which were small potatoes on the whole. He said that the 7 cousins should get it.
Many years later, the people decided to pay it. It's far from life-changing money, maybe a few months of income to most of us, if that. It's true that, even though I haven't worked in a bit, I'm the one that needs the money the least.
The way it's being configured, it's a donation to each one of us. That needs to be declared for tax purposes, even if, as far as I can tell, there's no tax to be paid. But even taxes are due because of it, I feel very strongly that I need to declare that money, as a matter of principle.
So I asked for the payer's (who is distant family, btw) SSN-equivalent, so I can declare it. But my cousins are against it, because they seem to be particularly broke and need the whole money. It seems to be an everyone-or-nobody situation.
Am I being an asshole for insisting that we get the SSN, declare it, and risk (I would say there is less than a 5% chance, but still) having to force them to pay taxes?
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