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#1881848 - 12/30/13 02:58 PM New Year's Baby promotion
Louie72 Offline
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Our Marketing Department would like to offer a New Year's Baby gift, that includes a savings account set up for the new baby. Upon opening the account, the bank would like to match the initial deposit up to $100.00. Does a promotion like this require a 1099 form to be sent to the customer and are there any other compliance issues that need to be taken in consideration. Thank you for you help.

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#1881855 - 12/30/13 03:20 PM Re: New Year's Baby promotion Louie72
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1099MISC threshold is $600.

You will have to figure out how an account gets set up. UTMA? All your CIP requirements will have to be met.

If Marketing wants publicity around the gift, a release will be needed from the family to use names and photos.
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#1881976 - 12/30/13 07:34 PM Re: New Year's Baby promotion Louie72
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If it is for opening the account, it would be a 1099INT.
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#1881984 - 12/30/13 07:48 PM Re: New Year's Baby promotion Louie72
Louie72 Offline
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Thanks I Peter and ricarey.

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#1882728 - 01/02/14 10:16 PM Re: New Year's Baby promotion Louie72
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Unless your state has a provision in its deposit account laws allowing for an "adult for minor" account form other than UTMA or UGMA, don't allow an account to be set up like that. An example would be "Randy Carey for Baby Carey." That's an open invitation to problems down the road. And don't even think about accepting an account set up with the baby as a joint owner, even if your state allows minors to be joint account holders. The simple fact is that the infant can't sign the contract, so it cannot be an owner of the account.
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#1885361 - 01/10/14 06:33 PM Re: New Year's Baby promotion John Burnett
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Thank you John.

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