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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by colejohnson66 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:20AM (#47516980)
Forwarded donations are not tax-deductible (in the US); That's a lie that's been spread around the internet. If you give a company money with the express purpose of them forwarding it to someone else (the company acts as a "collection agent"), it's not their income or donation.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-thos...

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by BobaFloutist on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:32AM (#47517867)
And even if it was, all "tax deductible" would mean is that they wouldn't have to pay taxes on that money. Which, you know, they don't get to spend. So it's kind of defacto tax deductible in the same sense that my friend's income is "tax deductible" for me, I guess.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by colejohnson66 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:03PM (#47519242)
A lot of people online have convinced themselves that "tax deductible" means that the government would refund you that dollar amount. That's a "tax credit"... If forwarded donations were a tax credit, then yes, rounding up is giving the company "free" money! But you're not.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by rickdeckard on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:39PM (#47523638)
Interesting, thanks for the details.

So it would be actually financially _better_ for Valve to donate a portion of their revenue and state "we will donate x% of the price to yy", as THEN it would be tax-deductible for them

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:25PM (#47526328)
It's not better, because being revenue and donated away and tax-deductible all cancels out. It's as if they never saw the money, just like forwarding it.
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