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.
1 The annual gift tax exclusion amount is $14,000 for 2015. 2  In other words, you can give $14,000 or $14,000 worth of property to as many people as you want in a year's time, without needing to file a gift tax return in order to report the gift to the IRS. While you will still be required to file a gift tax return each of the 5 years, you may use $1,000 of your lifetime exemption each year, to exempt that $1,000 from gift tax. 2  At the end of the 5 years, you will have used $5,000 or your $5.43 lifetime exemption.