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Tax implications for Nobel Peace Prize winners, specifically regarding tax exemptions and charitable donations
The Nobel institutions say bluntly that once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred — a finality grounded in the Nobel Foundation’s statutes and the practice of the prize comm...
The Nobel Prize medals awarded today are cast in 18‑carat "green gold" (an alloy of gold and silver) and since 1980 have been plated with 24‑carat gold; earlier medals were made of higher‑carat solid ...
Nobel Peace Prize winners can and frequently do donate their prize money to charities or use it to fund further work, and there is historical precedent across laureates for directing cash awards towar...
The Nobel committees have, as a rule, treated post‑award political controversy by holding decisions as final, refusing to rescind or transfer prizes, and largely declining to publicly police laureates...