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1. Okay, I looked at two options, doing it as one amount, or doing it against the donation form that organization.
2. No guidance form the IRS on this,
3. and if I did not just happen to come across an article from a law firm, I would not have know about having to make this adjustment.
1. I interpret you were referring to the approach of either (1) report the net amount for that donation, or (b) report the gross and add a line with a negative amount to offset. I think either way would work. If the amount was significant, or if the client cares (or reads his/her copy with a magnifying glass) , I would consider (b).
2. If there is guidance from the IRS on everything, @IRonMaN would not have any time for putting jokes in this forum for me.
3. It is sort of a basic concept that deductions should be net of (i) thingies received in return (from cash donations that come with a meal or a Mel Torme CD, to complex computations for a CRUT....); or (ii) tax or other credits (e.g. research and development expenses used for R&D tax credit; depreciation basis for your pre-2021 Tesla..., computation of qualified education expenses used for the Education credit...) to name a few. But then, you can always keep reading articles from law firms...
I come here for kudos and IRonMaN's jokes.