Jack McCall, winner of an American Airlines contest for 12 free airline tickets to anywhere in the U.S., finds that accepting them would obligate him to accept a W1099 for $52,800 in income taxes on the "worst case" value of the prize.

Follow link to American Airlines contest fiasco
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