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Subject:  Re: Charitable deduction question Date:  7/30/2013  2:30 PM
Author:  foo1bar Number:  118926 of 130016

The accounting definition adds some irony to the context.

You'll have to be a bit less circumspect for those of us that aren't accountants so don't know what the accounting definition is.

FWIW, I find it amusing from what I think of as the "normal" definition - that is that they're "giving" to a charitable organization, when really it seems what they're really doing is getting rid of stuff they don't want and just dumping it with the charity because of the tax writeoff.