Why You Should Not Go To Donation Cars

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Donation Cars

Anybody who acclimated to accept to “Car Talk” on NPR will bethink that one way of acknowledging accessible radio is to accord your car – or truck, or SUV, or boat, as Click and Clack would acquaint us. Alarm them up, accept the agent towed away, and get the achievement of accepting accurate a acceptable cause. Abounding charities and non-profits accept agnate fundraisers, breadth they booty an exceptionable agent off a donor’s easily and use it to abutment their accommodating programs. It seems like a win-win, abnormally back the donor can affirmation a tax answer too.

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Unfortunately, the bearings isn’t actually as simple as this. Charities do accept funds from agent donations, but it may be far beneath money than the donor imagines. Crucially, it may additionally be far beneath than they affirmation back filing taxes.

How abundant is a donated car, say an earlier auto that still runs, account to your alms of choice? A thousand dollars? A brace hundred? Actual few bodies apprehend that it may be as low as $25. This is because best charities assignment with middlemen, companies that handle the accumulating and auction of the donated cars and in about-face accord the non-profit a collapsed fee or a baby allotment of the vehicle’s bulk back sold. In either case, it is accustomed for your non-profit to alone accept about $50 from the auction of your donated car.

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According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, added than two-thirds of charities with agent donation programs will accept 5 percent or beneath of a vehicle’s bulk as declared on the donor’s tax return, a actuality that brings addition botheration to light. The IRS acclimated to acquiesce a answer of a donated vehicle’s dejected book bulk behindhand of how the agent was acclimated by a charity. A few years ago, however, they afflicted the aphorism so that alone the bulk of money the alms actually receives afterwards all is said and done can be deducted – so alone about $50 in best cases!

Few bodies apperceive about this, and abounding abide to accomplish incorrect deductions afterwards altruistic an old car. But deductions claimed for non-cash donations are one of the best accepted triggers of an audit, according to the American Institute of Philanthropy, which recommends that abeyant donors seek out a non-profit that uses donated cartage in their programming rather than artlessly as a fundraiser.

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There are not abounding of these, nationally. Fortunately for us, though, there is a different non-profit appropriate actuality in Athens that puts cartage to actual acceptable use and is consistently affable donations of acclimated but reliable cars, finer small-to-mid-sized and acceptable on gas mileage. This is the Transformation Station, a affairs of Acceptable Works, Inc. Acceptable Works provides the donated cartage to individuals who charge them in barter for advance assignment in any of several of Acceptable Works’ added programs. Back busline is actually acute to bread-and-butter and amusing abundance in a rural breadth like southeast Ohio, and back the acquirement of a car is one of the distinct better accouterments to bread-and-butter ability to abounding lower-income breadth residents, the Transformation Station fits appropriate into Acceptable Works’ goals of abating abjection in the region.

So how does the action work? A actor in the affairs earns “points” for every day or half-day formed at the Transformation Station. Afterwards 24 points, participants may booty home a vehicle. Best bodies advance one day a anniversary for 12 weeks, at two credibility per accomplished day. Cars, though, aren’t the alone account accessible at the Transformation Station. For capricious numbers of points, bodies may additionally access food, accessories and bicycles.

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Like all of Acceptable Works’ initiatives, the Transformation Station is congenital about the account of association and service, and the acquaintance is meant to be acknowledging and allusive to anybody involved. Back it started in 2004, the affairs has provided 164 cartage to volunteers, who collectively accept accustomed added than 2000 hours of account to the association every year.

For added advice on the Transformation Station, appointment www.good-works.net/transformation-station/. If you would like to participate as a Transformation Station volunteer, alarm 740-594-3336. If you would like to accord a vehicle, an appliance, a bicycle, or food, amuse alarm the aloft cardinal or acquaintance email@good-works.net. And if you do accord a vehicle, its absolute fair bazaar bulk is tax-deductible!

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Editor’s note: Alex Armstrong is an OU green majoring in French who volunteered with Acceptable Works aftermost division as allotment of assistant Julie Paxton's Economics of Altruism class. The chic formed with several bounded nonprofits and called Acceptable Works to accept a $10,000 admission from Warren Buffet's Learning By Giving Foundation.

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