2020 Year-end Charitable Giving Tax Incentives for Corporations

2020 Year-end Charitable Giving Tax Incentives for Corporations

Summary of Keypoints The CARES Act temporarily expanded corporate charitable giving incentives for 2020, increasing the charitable deduction limit for C-corporations from 10% to 25% of taxable income and raising the limit for food inventory donations from 15% to 25%. Equity gifting remains a common year-end strategy for business owners, using the $15,000 annual gift…

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2020 Year-end Charitable Giving Tax Incentives for Individuals

Charitable giving Tax Incentives individuals 2020

Summary of Keypoints Individual charitable giving may yield greater tax benefits than corporate giving, since the top individual marginal tax rate (37%) exceeds the reduced corporate tax rate (21%) under the 2019 tax reform. The CARES Act introduced a new $300 above-the-line charitable deduction for 2020, allowing individuals who take the standard deduction to deduct…

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