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Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

RE: Cancelled Wedding

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Mellow Momma wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
The cynic in me is wondering if they can now write off the cost of the meal since they donated it?
Unfortunately, it's only deductible if it's a donation to an approved non-profit organization / charity.
Maybe if they'd called up a local homeless shelter or church, said "we have some food we'd like to donate to you, can you get people here?" then it might have been a donation to that charity.
It sounds like that's exactly what they did. They partnered with a local shelter.

I only say cynical, because my first thought was that they did this to somehow get something for their troubles as well as to help others. I could be totally wrong though. They might just be perfectly altruistic.

I wouldn't take issue with that.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I'm perfectly okay with them getting a tax write off for the food. They could have done so many other things. It was nice that they helped.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Lawyerlady wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
The cynic in me is wondering if they can now write off the cost of the meal since they donated it?
Unfortunately, it's only deductible if it's a donation to an approved non-profit organization / charity.
Maybe if they'd called up a local homeless shelter or church, said "we have some food we'd like to donate to you, can you get people here?" then it might have been a donation to that charity.
It sounds like that's exactly what they did. They partnered with a local shelter.

I only say cynical, because my first thought was that they did this to somehow get something for their troubles as well as to help others. I could be totally wrong though. They might just be perfectly altruistic.
I wouldn't take issue with that.

Yeah. I don't the problem either.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

I mean, a tax deduction for charitable giving is really not all it's cracked up to be and it's going to be limited by a percentage of their income. They certainly aren't getting credit for the entire $35,000.00.