Examples of el cheapo in a sentence. took an el cheapo vacation, staying at a friend's cabin the whole time.
Exclusions. The entire $50,000 you give isn't vulnerable to taxation. The IRS allows exclusions, a dollar limit you can give away tax-free. As of the 2012 tax year, the exclusion amount is $13,000 for each person you make a gift to. If you're married, you can double that: you and your spouse are each entitled to give away $13,000 per person.
You may have heard of the lifetime exclusion. This is the amount you can give above and beyond the $14,000 annual limit during the course of your life without incurring gift taxes. For 2015 that amount is a whopping $5,430,000 and will go up to $5,450,000 in 2016. With such a high limit, you'd be right to think that most people won't need to be concerned.