• Aabbcc@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    not use me as a tax write off.

    That’s not really how that works

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        As others have said, you can only write off money you donate. They didn’t donate it, you did.

        Even if you gave it to them then they donate it, they’d have to count it as income and pay tax on it then donate it to get the tax break. But that’d just cancel itself out anyways.

        I have no idea why they ask for donations. Best guess is pr.

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          PR is exactly it. “We raised millions for [insert cause]! Aren’t we the best?”

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            Donate to Walgreens

            Money goes to Walgreen kids foundation

            Kids see 5%, ceo of foundation gets a 75% raise for hard work…fires half staff for being lazy.

            Fuck donating to companies.

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          PR is correct. People like companies who work to better society so companies make efforts. Its weirdwhen people then vilify those companies for doing what they’ve been asked to do.

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        For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.

        Nope, that’s not actually how it works in the US (can’t speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you’re eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.

        The company doesn’t get to write it off as their donation, because it’s not. For them it’s pretty neutral, they’re receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.

        Note: I can’t speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it’s still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven’t looked into that side.

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          The foundations are usually owned by the companies begging for money. They don’t do it to help the world, they do it for profit at their non-profit orgs.

          Pittance for the kids

          Raises for the ceos

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            It’s much worse. Several companies orchestrate the giving for all those other companies.

            Except they are all for profit.

            The havenconferences and lectures and help gather more donations which they take a piece of… for profit.