• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    They do get a whole lot of advertising, social capital, and influnce over which causes get proped up, on the back of donating customers, while you’re out a few bucks that you could have pooled for a single charity and gotten a tax receipt of your own for.

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      7 days ago

      They do get a whole lot of advertising, social capital, and influnce over which causes get proped up, on the back of donating customers

      Sure, but that’s not a tax write-off as originally said. Stick to the things that are actually things.

      while you’re out a few bucks that you could have pooled for a single charity and gotten a tax receipt of your own for

      If your donations for the year exceed the standard deduction (hint: the standard deduction is about $15k. Most people take that instead of itemizing). Doesn’t have to be one single donation, and if your receipt shows the donation (it should) and it’s for a legitimate charity I don’t see why you couldn’t use that to deduct that donation if you itemize.