Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
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If you are workamping or volunteering in exchange for a site with hook-ups and and other perks, do you claim this on your taxes as income? What if it is a volunteer job and no money changes hands? PM me if you want to give me a non-public opinion. Seriously, I would like to know your thoughts on this. The value or compensation would be different dependent upon the value of the site and perks. If my wife and I are workamping in a RV resort in Florida during Nov - Apr it could be a lot of compensation. How do some of you handle this issue?
When we volunteered in a State park (Cascade ID) they said we did not have to pay taxes because having to have an RV was required by the park to be a volunteer camp host.
Also this is the IRS rule:
IRS Publication 525
The IRS does not consider workamping for your site as a taxable income if three conditions exist:
#1 The lodging is provided on your employers property,
#2 The lodging (site) is furnished for the convenience of the employer, and
#3 you are required to accept the lodging as a condition of employment. "
Some resorts are giving their workampers a W-2 showing they furnished a free site and the value of the site. This allows them to deduct the amount from their taxes and causes the workamper to have to pay state and federal taxes as if they were actual employees. If you accept this type of arrangement then you are liable for all taxes.
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Clay (WA5NMR), Lee (wife), Katie, Kelli (cats) Full timed for eleven years in a 2004 Sightseer 35N. Snowbirds for one winter and now settled down in CO.
