Facebook fundraiser: Teacher finds out he may have to pay taxes
So you want to hold a fundraiser on Facebook? Don't forget to read the fine print. Louis Goffinet, a Connecticut middle school teacher who began a fundraiser on Facebook last year to help buy groceries for families in need as the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread, learned that the hard way. What began by asking a few Facebook friends for $200 in donations quickly went viral. Goffinet eventually raised more than $41,000 to purchase and deliver groceries for more than 100 families in his hometown of Mansfield Center, Connecticut, as well as help pay rent and buy gas. He was hai...