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Tax-Saving Tips - February 2020

Use Your Business to Maximize Charitable Donations Giving to your church, school, or other 501(c)(3) charity is a noble act no matter how you choose to give. But for the purposes of tax savings, some forms of giving are much more beneficial to you than are others. As a business owner, you can use some business strategies to get the money to these institutions as business expenses. While this does not change anything from the institution’s perspective, it hugely increases your tax savings. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) makes it harder to benefit from your personal donations. Let’s say you donate $10,000 to a church, school, or other 501(c)(3) charity: 1.      Will you get a tax deduction—in other words, will you itemize? 2.      Will you benefit from the entire $10,000 as an itemized deduction? In other words, did the $10,000 simply put you over the hump that beat the standard deduction? 3.      Say you can deduct all $10,000 as an itemized deduction. Would ma