Who Gets the Tax Benefit For Those Checkout Donations?
taxpolicycenter.org
If you’ve shopped recently at your supermarket, there’s a good chance you faced a choice at the checkout counter: Whether to give to a charity. But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial.

edit: you should also know that you should just donate directly to the charity, but I thought that was common knowledge

Apparently the idea that it gives corporations a tax break is a misconception, rather, YOU get the tax break! edit: yes you have to have receipts, thought that was common knowledge and didn’t think i needed a disclaimer

Thanks to @TheRealKuni@piefed.social, @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works, and @Zorcron@piefed.zip for that info!

edit: sorry for posting this, leaving it up so it’s not a “dirty delete”

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    11412·
    4 months ago

    Sorry downvoted.

    Doesn’t matter, you are still helping them in terms of PR.

    “Oh look how good we are, we are a benevolent corpo that raised X Million dollars”

    Nah, if you want, you should be donating directly to the cause. Don’t let corpos get good PR for nothing.

    • pieland@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      392·
      4 months ago

      i agree, the point of my post is to clarify the misconception, especially for anyone who may have donated in the past and felt guilty about it