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[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 142 points 12 hours ago

Ah, this again.

The mega corporation did not receive any tax benefit from collecting donations. They are able to write off the amount of donations from their income, so that they aren't paying tax on the money they collected specifically to be donated.

  1. Company collects $1 donation from customer
  2. Company has $1 extra income
  3. Company donates $1 to charity
  4. Company writes that dollar off of their income.
  5. Company reports the exact same profit/loss as if they had not collected donations.
[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 47 points 12 hours ago

I assumed this was true also, but I also believe the company is receiving some sort of kick back from this otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 101 points 12 hours ago
[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

And, if it's a big enough portion of the charity's funding, influence over the charity. But not tax breaks.

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 40 points 12 hours ago

And decision-makers at that company feeling good about themselves at no cost whatsoever for the company or themselves.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 12 hours ago

exactly

its not really charity if you don't give something up

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago

They really should match all donations.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

The C-level executive should match all donations. Otherwise that's money that should be going to improving conditions for the workers.

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