ObiQuiet wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 6:02 pm
Really? I dont think our assumption should be that a limit formerly applied to the recipients will now apply retroactively to the buyers. Other assumptions, ok, but that one is a stretch IMO.
I think you are reading that backwards...
If spouse A buys gift for spouse B and delivers the gift to spouse B - it's spouse B that would be prevented from purchasing as they'd be "over their limit". The only impact to the "buyer" is if the spouse reciprocated, as spouse A would have received more than their annual limit.
FWIW - this is how I had always assumed/understood the process was
supposed to work. And why we had planned to "deliver" the gifts in
future years - years in which we didn't plan to buy any (and no more than one (1) $10k [purchase value] per year - again within the original limits.
But others have attempted to point out that was never actually how things worked, nor how the language was written...
Regardless, where I have a hard time accepting this "new
potential outcome" is they are telling us to deliver our bonds - have been telling people there "is no negative impact for doing so" - and then
only now some people are hearing that doing so will block
future years of purchases.
IANAL - but I have a hard time understanding how they could do that... If I purchase too many "normally", the excess is refunded, they don't let me buy too many and then prevent me from buying them in the future...
But clear as mud... So far, it seems one of the following will occur:
- "Hall pass" with no negative impacts of delivering gifts
- Failure to deliver gifts might see them forcibly delivered and/or refunded [if they are attempting to end the "gift box" idea/program
- Delivery will block "future" purchases for X number of years for the recipient, where X is the amount over the annual limit delivered
- Nothing - we are assuming changes are coming - and things continue as they have been, it was just a gentle "reminder" email for people to deliver gifts - and we are reading into it more than ever intended...
- <shrug> I'm sure we'll have more things we can add to the list as people call/ask and continue to get different answers...