How do you write this off of your taxes?
As she was getting ready to leave the hospital Tuesday with her baby, a tearful Jennifer Robinson knew how to measure generosity.
All she had to do was turn and look at Nicole Hendrix, the woman who had helped the premature baby, Max, to thrive against the odds.
Hendrix had donated her breast milk — gallons of it — to Max after his mother couldn’t make any more.
I can’t seem to find breast milk / gallon in IRS Publication 561, which covers noncash donations.
Of course, it might not be an actual donation, but a personal gift, which is not tax deductible at all.
In somewhat unrelated news, I have some tax returns here to go out and discovered this morning that were on the receiving end of some spilled children’s milk, and I have the choice of asking my former accountant to send us new copies at the cost of $300 or something outlandish (we aren’t parting on the best of terms) or mailing them in stained. Just so you know when I’m investigated and incarcerated by the Feds for sending in stinky taxes, I saved some money on it.
