The 2014 tax reform in Korea transformed the tax deduction system into a tax credit system for charitable giving. As a result, tax benefits for high-income donors decreased while those for low-income donors increased. In this study, using the unbalanced panel data of the National Survey of Taxes...

This paper examines the effects of estate tax repeal on charitable giving. Using data from a variety of sources, we conclude that outright repeal would reduce giving at death by about $5 billion per year, and giving during life by a similar amount. The resulting decline in giving, $10 billion...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the predicted effects of tax reform in the 1980s (the tax acts of 1981 and 1986) on charitable contributions by individuals and to compare them to the actual and apparent effects, viewed from the perspective of 1989. The paper discusses what the economic...