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”

  • underreacting
    91·
    2 days ago

    One could even consider it good news that the company doesn’t get a tax break from money donated by the customer.

    • pieland@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      yeah, this is what i was going for

      i’m not here to defend billionaires. i’m chronically ill and probably going to die young, suffering, and in poverty. if billionaires did the right thing, not only would i probably be suffering a lot less, but so would a lot of people. we’d probably have a better world.

      but here we are. :(