Those using swagbucks ???

mjtatman said:
Is it considered income if you are getting giftcards? I thought I read on here that it is not? But then again, I'm not tax law savvy....
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The IRS doesn't distinguish between cash and other things of value. If Oprah gives you a free car, that's still income and you have to pay taxes on it.

However, I believe where Swagbucks gets around the issue is that rebates for purchasing merchandise are exempt from taxes.
 
PerfessorZ said:
For those of you who rack up over $600 a year... has anyone ever been sent a 1099 by Swagbucks?

Thx
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I have never and this year i have earned over $1000 just on swagbucks. I kinda remember reading about some one one here who had received something but not sure if it was from SB
 
tink89 said:
I have never and this year i have earned over $1000 just on swagbucks. I kinda remember reading about some one one here who had received something but not sure if it was from SB
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ETA: I remembered it was not SB related but more I think someone received a 1099 from earnings from bank bonuses or something like that.
 
tink89 said:
ETA: I remembered it was not SB related but more I think someone received a 1099 from earnings from bank bonuses or something like that.
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Bank bonuses are treated like interest so they get reported for sure. But maybe it was perk?
 
PerfessorZ said:
The IRS doesn't distinguish between cash and other things of value. If Oprah gives you a free car, that's still income and you have to pay taxes on it.

However, I believe where Swagbucks gets around the issue is that rebates for purchasing merchandise are exempt from taxes.
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Exactly that. I researched this and found SB's policy/thought process is that they don't track to that detail on what is and isn't taxable and therefore they don't 1099 - it's up to you to self report your taxable income. I'm still not sure how they get around that as I thought it was their responsibility to do that, but it's SB, I wouldn't trust them to do it correctly either so it's better this way.
 
Got a notice this morning that Apple made changes to Safari that might cause Swagbucks to not work so well. It suggested I use Chrome on my iPad. Seems like a pain to have to use a different browser than I use for everything else. I’m not very techy. Will my sb not track now if I shop through safari or do a survey?
 
Limes96 said:
Got a notice this morning that Apple made changes to Safari that might cause Swagbucks to not work so well. It suggested I use Chrome on my iPad. Seems like a pain to have to use a different browser than I use for everything else. I’m not very techy. Will my sb not track now if I shop through safari or do a survey?
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Apple is working toward preventing websites from gathering info and tracking your activity. If I had to guess this security probably conflicts with some of the things Swagbucks website does.
 
Has anyone had this happen before? I qualified for a survey in the Answer app and got almost to the very end and next thing I know the next question had started a new survey which I didn't qualify for and only got my 1SB. It was a 10 minutes 50SB survey asking about LinkedIn Learning.
 
dirtyjerz said:
Has anyone had this happen before? I qualified for a survey in the Answer app and got almost to the very end and next thing I know the next question had started a new survey which I didn't qualify for and only got my 1SB. It was a 10 minutes 50SB survey asking about LinkedIn Learning.
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About once a week
 
So far this week, I've only received credit once for coupon prints. I have been printing the max, b/c I need the SB. So disappointed it has not worked very well.

RevU had 3 new (to me) insurance offers worth 18 SB each. Not double RevU, but better than nothing.

RE: ncraves. All my 8 SB ncraves left me at the beginning of the month. Is the best option still Best Friends? It only runs 4,3,2,1,1,1,1 ect.. but its the best I've got when I can't babysit the computer.
 
dirtyjerz said:
You're kidding! I'm annoyed it happened once to me but knowing that I would get nowhere by sending in a ticket, I'm just going to have to let it go and keep trying to qualify for other surveys. :(
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Yup happens to me all the time. Now I keep the other window open where it shows the survey i started and for how much. I will sometimes finish the whole survey and it will not give me credit. So i submit a ticket. Almost 90% of the time I get the SB from submitting a ticket. I am actually at the point where i am surprised when it credits correctly
 
Do you all have much luck on searches? I've been trying to do them lately so I can get the bonus SB for completely the toolbar, but I have tough luck. I swear i've done at least 50 searched today and nothing. I can remember when I first started doing SB on Fridays you could regularly get 50 SB searches.
 
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