Charitable Giving and the New Tax Act

January 1, 2018

In the time leading up to the passage of the largest tax reform act since 1986, many in the nonprofit world feared that charitable contributions would be adversely affected. The proposed changes could have reduced the number of donors who itemize their charitable gifts to as few as 5%. Reliable industry sources predicted that the new tax law would cause charitable giving to decline by billions of dollars. These dire predictions were based on various studies of the House/GOP Tax Reform Blueprint released in early summer, which called for broad tax cuts for businesses and individuals and overall tax simplification.

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