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      Apple Should Be a Leader in Charitable Giving

      Apple Should Be a Leader in Charitable Giving

      Apple's financial performance is unrivaled among American companies, but it's very far from being a leader in corporate giving, as measured by the ratios of giving to pre-tax profits and stock buybacks.

      Ralph Nader
      Apr 30, 2023

      Here is a letter that Steve Clifford and I sent to the CEO Tim Cook of Apple corporation, whose percentage of charitable giving relative to its taxable income is astoundingly low as compared to other corporations noted below. Apple should increase its charitable giving.

      April 24, 2023

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      The Devil's Deal of Tax-Deductible Status

      Seeking the 501(c)(3) label limits the scope of individual giving and collective action.

      Rebecca Gordon
      Apr 20, 2023

      We've just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on by climate change. In that case, you can wait until October.) It's also that moment when the War Resisters League—slogan: "If you work for peace, stop paying for war"—publishes its invaluable annual "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes" pie chart and publicizes a series of Tax Day events nationwide.

      For many of the rest of us, it's time to pat ourselves on the back for the charitable donations we made to tax-deductible organizations in 2022. Time to pat ourselves on the back for being clever and generous enough to "do well by doing good," right? Time, perhaps, to wonder why, even when we give to organizations seeking radical change, the IRS still rewards us with a tax deduction. Do the feds really support organized opposition to, for example, the military-industrial complex? Or is there more to the story of what my students sometimes refer to as the "nonprofit-industrial complex?"

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      Corporations Are the Modern-Day Scrooges

      Corporations Are the Modern-Day Scrooges

      Coca-Cola and Amazon among giants that hand over a fraction of their profits as part of promotional stunts.

      Adam Bychawski
      Dec 30, 2022

      Corporate Scrooges in the UK have boasted about donating as little as 0.007% of their cash to charities at Christmas, analysis by openDemocracy has revealed.

      Amazon and Coca-Cola are among the giants that have been accused of "giving pennies from their back pocket" to good causes as part of promotional stunts over the holiday period.

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