This 1981 law includes valuable structural changes which the charitable movement earnestly desired. including an increase in the maximum of charitable contributions for corporations. greater flexibility in the payout requirements for foundations. and a phasein of abovetheline charitable deductions for those also claiming the standard deduction. This last provision gives charitable tax benefits to lower income people which were available previously only to the 30 percent of the taxpayers who itemized their deductions. and it greatly expanded the numbers of people with tax incentives to give to charity. Carried to its illogical extreme. the argument that lower tax rates damage charity would also find detriment to the work of the International Rescue Committee in an end to the persecution which causes refugees.
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