Are you planning to make a cash contribution to your favorite charity? Have you recently spent a weekend cleaning stuff out of your garage or basement that you now plan to donate to a local nonprofit ...

As the deadline for 2023 income tax reporting approaches, it is timely to revisit the substantiation rules for claiming charitable deductions during the tax year. For many years, the IRS has focused ...

Taxpayers should give as much consideration to the form in which they make charitable donations as they do to the amounts they give. By making some changes they might deliver more benefits to ...

Now’s a good time to tell your clients how to substantiate their charitable gifts on their 2016 federal income tax returns—due by April 18, 2017. Strict, detailed and overlapping substantiation ...

I'm 73, married and file my taxes jointly with my spouse. My IRA is in Vanguard mutual funds. We make about $8,000 annually in contributions to charities. I understand that direct contributions from ...