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ACR Sessions at The Philanthropy Roundtable Annual Meeting

Last week, The Philanthropy Roundtable held its Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, AZ. As part of the programming, the Alliance for Charitable Reform held a panel on tax policy and charitable giving featuring Robert Sharpe, chairman of the Sharpe Group, and Sandra Swirski, ACR executive director. Pete Bird of the Frist Foundation moderated the panel which […]

Guest Post: The Greater Give

As currently contemplated by Congress, tax reform could lead to a decrease in giving. The Alliance for Charitable Reform and many of our allies in civil society are promoting what we call the Universal Charitable Deduction, which would allow all Americans to deduct their charitable donations from income (more on that idea here). Other ideas […]

ACR News 10.13.17 – Universal Charitable Deduction Legislation Introduced

>> Federal: Washington Roundup >> Federal: Tax Reform? >> Federal: Universal Charitable Giving Act of 2017 >> Federal: Roadmap for Action – October >> Consider This: Walk the Plank >> Top Reads: Nonprofits Battle to Get Charitable Deduction Extended to All Taxpayers Washington Roundup Last week, the House and Senate both took important steps toward tax reform […]

Legislation Would Expand Charitable Deduction to All Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Legislation has been introduced by Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), H.R. 3988, The Universal Charitable Giving Act of 2017, which would expand the charitable deduction to Americans who opt to take a standard deduction. “We thank Congressman Walker for listening to charities and introducing this bill. It addresses our concern that the current charitable […]

(VIDEO): WSJ Discusses “Sacred Cows” and Expanded Standard Deduction

Richard Rubin, the tax policy reporter for the Wall Street Journal, heads to the farm in this entertaining and educational video to discuss the “sacred cows” in the tax code and explains how a larger standard deduction squeezes itemized deductions.

Congress Passes Aid for Hurricane Recovery Efforts Through Charitable Giving

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congress passed legislation today aimed at spurring additional charitable giving to assist with the relief efforts for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. H.R. 3823, the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017, includes a temporary suspension of limitations on the deduction for charitable contributions to qualified hurricane relief efforts […]

ACR News 9.15.17 – Where are we on Tax Reform?

>> Federal: Washington Roundup >> Federal: So, What’s Up with Tax Reform? >> Federal: Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Individual Tax Reform >> Federal: Tax Reform and Philanthropy’s 3 Percent Solution >> Federal: Faith and Giving Coalition Briefing >> Federal: Roadmap for Action – September >> Consider This: Congress is Back in Town >> Top Reads: Nonprofits […]

Discussing Philanthropic Freedom and The Givers

The Philanthropy Roundtable’s vice president for public policy, Sean Parnell, recently participated in a discussion with David Callahan, the founder of Inside Philanthropy and author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Parnell and Callahan discussed a few of the topics addressed in the book, including freedom and oversight, civic inequality, […]

Attack on university endowments would undermine philanthropic freedom

A few weeks ago Philanthropy Daily published a guest opinion piece by me addressing two other opinion articles it had recently featured that challenged the appropriateness of large university endowments. The co-author of one of those articles responded in the comments to what he saw as the deficiencies of my argument (and I offered my […]