Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by sokoloff on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:38PM (#26849038)

If you make a donation in someone's name, you get the tax deduction, not them. Google couldn't "pay" the employees in some non-taxable form and then let the employees take the $1000 deduction even if they wanted to (which they don't).

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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by sjwright on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:45AM (#26850343)

That’s my point. The donation is financially a corporate donation, but is being marketed to the employee as a perk of their employment. That it’s “their” donation.

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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by Godel_unicode on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:16AM (#26850747)

The perk is your charity gets the money, the point of giving to charity isn't the tax benefits...

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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by sjwright on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:28AM (#26871007)

Again yes, that’s exactly my point. They are double dipping on the good will; first as an employee perk, second on their corporate annual reports.

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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by sokoloff on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:15AM (#26851788)

If I care about cause XYZ and as part of my employment, my company gives $1000 to a charity that I picked which supports cause XYZ, that absolutely has value to me.

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