australia
In Australia are there any legal concerns with parents giving school teachers gifts?
<p>Throughout primary school and kinder I've noticed that around Christmas and sometimes the teachers birthday some parents organise a pool of money to purchase a gift for the teacher.  This can result in the teacher receiving a gift in the range of $200 to $300 dollars. In the corporate world, I'd be expected to register this.</p>

<p>Are there any legal concerns here, and from what angle. Corruption, Income, Taxation something else? </p>

<p>Also is it different if a parent individually gave a gift?</p>

<h2>No</h2>

<p>Gifts are legal, <a href="https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/bribery-and-corruption-laws-and-regulations/australia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bribery</a> is not.</p>

<p>The distinction has nohting to do with value and everything to do with intent. Gifts are given gratuitously, bribes are given as part of a corrupt exchange.</p>

<p>Many organisations, particularly public ones, have policies and procedures regarding gifts as an anti-corruption measure but, there is no general legal requirement to do so. Where they exist they are the receiver’s problem, not the giver’s.</p>

<p>Feel free to give your teacher a gift.</p>
