Q: My bedmate and I accept been debating whether it is bigger for us to accord our old gas-guzzling SUV or advertise it.
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The Blue Book bulk is $3,500 and we accept not gotten any offers to buy it at $2,500. Does it accomplish faculty for us to aloof accord the agent and get the write-off?
A: Under old tax law, you were advantaged to an itemized answer in an bulk according to the fair bazaar bulk of the car on the date of the contribution. The fair bazaar bulk was authentic as the bulk a willing, different client would pay for the car.
Obviously, the assurance of the fair bazaar bulk was abstract and accessible for advanced interpretation. The Blue Book bulk had been broadly acclimated and accustomed to "objectively" actuate the fair bazaar value. Often, the Blue Book bulk was greater than the astute accessible bazaar affairs price, and the greater the difference, the greater the tax advantage of altruistic your car.
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However, the IRS has anchored the rules to absolute the answer to the charity's absolute affairs bulk of the vehicle, authoritative the "fair bazaar value" the absolute bazaar value.
Now, aback to your question:
Before altruistic your car, I acclaim you assay the economics of the addition against the banknote accustomed if you awash the car.
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To do this, you charge to accumulate the deductible addition bulk by your accumulated federal and accompaniment bordering assets tax amount and analyze the aftereffect to what you would accept if you awash the car. This adding will advice you actuate the banking after-effects of your accommodation (tax accumulation vs. banknote accustomed from a sale).
Let's accept your federal and accompaniment bordering tax amount is 30 percent. A $3,500 answer would save you $1,050 ($3,500 x 30 percent).
Compare the $1,050 to the $2,500 affairs price, and now you can accomplish an accomplished decision. Economically, you will accept a account of 30 percent of the charity's affairs bulk of your agent compared with 100 percent of the affairs bulk if you are able to advertise it yourself.
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Once accomplished with the banking after-effects of altruistic your car, you can now counterbalance the dollars complex with the affecting and civic allowances of acknowledging the accommodating organization.
Barry Dolowich is a certified accessible accountant in Monterey. He can be accomplished at 372-7200, P.O. Box 710, Monterey 93942-0710 or bdolowich@aol.com.
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