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Individuals often fund charitable gifts with their savings or retirement benefits. However, such benefits, other than those from a Roth individual retirement arrangement, are generally included in the individual's gross income when received, and may not be deductible from the donor's income....
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Charitable trust law authorizes surnamed trusts, and provides no convenient mechanism to force a name change even hundreds of years after the founder's death. Tax law treats the use of a surname as harmless. A founder's ability to surname can provide a significant benefit to the founding family...
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” – have failed. I propose combining the two provisions by allowing taxpayers to donate unused FSA amounts to charity. Doing so …
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capital gains by LPs when they contribute their partnership interests to a charity. We explain how such taxable gains upon … the capital gain tax liability they might incur upon contribution of their fund holdings to a charity …
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The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
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This article explores a long-standing research and policy question on whether tax incentives for charitable giving are desirable from legal and economic perspectives. The author discusses legal and empirical aspects that are important in designing tax incentives for charitable giving. Firstly,...
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Leading tax reform proposals contemplate a charitable deduction claimed by just five percent of taxpayers. Such a limited deduction would fatally undermine the foundations of a giving incentive that has fostered an altruistic and pluralistic society through its broad-based participation and...
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the different ways DAFs are viewed—as quasi-private foundations, public charity substitutes, or as catalysts for new … appreciation, overvaluation of contributed property, uncertain benefits to charity, equity concerns, and enforcement. Part IV … amount of the deduction for property contributions on the net benefit to charity …
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alternative. According to contemporary accounts, charity corrects the failure of the private market to provide public goods, and … threat of exit to lobby for local change. Subsidies for charity inefficiently distort the operation of these markets for … legal rules. Nonetheless, there remains a strong case for subsidizing charity, albeit on grounds new to the literature …
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