So what? I'm sick of charities too, I just say that whatever I'm doing is more important than your charity so I'm hanging up, stop wasting your breath, there's one where I can tell it's the same guy every time, I just say you again, I told you to stop calling and just hang up after saying I don't care about the veterans, fire fighters or police
Maybe it depends on the area of the university in which you donate. I donate to a specific Pitt program, not general fund or athletics.
It doesn't even matter if you donate to Pitt anonymously. That only prevents your name from being listed on the giving site as a donor. They will still collect your credit card billing info and add you to their mailing and call list. I wish they would stop wasting money on physically mailing paraphernalia that I file in the trash 🗑, but I guess maybe it pays for itself when they a get a big donation from an old timer that's not as digitally inclined.
That's interesting...I've given to a lot of different areas, but they seem to go out of their way not to over do it. But I usually never pick up phone calls because I'm usually in the middle of something. I have to say, this year after a very modest gift...only $100... to my home undergrad academic department, which is not that small of a Dept, and I received a handwritten thank you card from the Dept Chair. That wasn't the first time I had given such a donation, but that may be the first time I've ever gotten something so personal back for something so small, but certainly I think it very much depends, like you say, on the specific program or who is running things.
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Per the Brookings Institute, only 21% of filers itemized before the 2017 increase in the standard deduction. The 2023 rate of itemization was actually 10%. So the change in filers that itemize has been an 11% drop of total filers. In other words, 79% of filers weren't itemizing previously anyway and are getting a larger standard deduction now.My bad, its 9% of people who can write off charitable contributions.
The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There’s a better way.
Companies sometimes match donations to charity. What if the government did too?
It has been a long time since I started donating anonymously. Made a decent donation to a charity that my son's school was supporting one year. I can't remember how much, probably in the $250 to $500 range as that is around what I'd typically give to a good cause that my kids are enlisted to raise money for. But then they hounded me with tons of mailers and phone calls after that. Extremely aggressive too. Probably spent more than the $ I gave trying to get another donation out of me. Because of them, I now donate anonymously and my main donations always go to the same places that address things that have touched our family.
I believe so. But who has the time to pursue it?
There is a long and sorted history behind the government's involvement in charities that lies somewhere between the popularity of charitable associations in the community and the temptation for their leadership to try to make money with them.
Yep. I remember when this legislation went into effect. They carved out an exemption for political action committees, which is where 95% of the first responder robocalls come from. The money doesn't go to the police, fire or rescue workers. It goes towards the re-election campaign of whichever politician is behind the PAC.
Yes. I try to do this. But again, I am in sales. And somehow these spam/spoof companies know what area codes/numbers I have visited and talked to and they spoof these numbers.
No loophole. They either don’t care (wholesalers who are buying lists, and often using virtual assistants out of the country) or don’t know (your average dumb Realtor who thinks cold calling is allowed)
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My brother would disagree with you. But he's a tax accountant. He loves tax law changes and particularly ones that make it more complicated.
New Zealand says hold my beer. They actually tax your tax. You pay GST (national goods and services tax--like a sales tax) on tax.
That’s not why it’s outsourced
Sounds like your place is offering a crappy paying job .
Post the salary range , hours , and benefits .
No. It was strictly frustration + alcohol + sitting there watching TV. Too much time on my hands? Go to the streaming threads where it seems like all of the budding Lair Cecil B DeMilles watch like 25 different streaming shows a week.
