Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100
ASU Lodestar Center
OCTOBER 3, 2017
The resolution opens with the observation that the deduction “is one of the oldest preferences in tax law.” I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. How does the deduction work? think tank.
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