{"value":{"id":1179986,"askingMemberId":1446,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-02-24T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-02-27T00:00:00","uin":"19775","questionText":"To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC will treat crowd funded payments to people affected by Storm Dennis as taxable income.","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3991,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-02-27T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Gratuitous payments to people, made from a pot of funds raised by crowdfunding, will not be taxable income. To be gratuitous, there must be no agreement or expectation that the recipient will provide something in return.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Crowdfunding: Taxation","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1179986","method":"GET"}]}