{"id":69322,"date":"2025-11-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com\/?p=69322"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:52:12","slug":"giving-tuesday-and-your-role-as-a-tax-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants.intuit.com\/taxprocenter\/practice-management\/giving-tuesday-and-your-role-as-a-tax-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Tuesday and your role as a tax advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Giving Tuesday<\/a>, the global day of generosity celebrated annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, serves as a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday as a way to give back. Since its inception in 2012 by New York\u2019s 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation, this movement has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon, raising billions and inspiring collective action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For tax professionals and accountants, Giving Tuesday offers more than just an opportunity to write a check or encourage their clients to donate. Your specialized financial knowledge and direct connection to your clients’ wealth provides a bridge to \u201cradical generosity,\u201d helping transform donations into sustained, impactful philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding Giving Tuesday’s importance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Giving Tuesday harnesses the holiday season’s energy and directs it toward positive social change. It provides nonprofits with crucial funding for year-end fundraising, and more importantly, establishes a culture of philanthropy as an everyday part of life. Giving Tuesday highlights every act of kindness, whether a financial contribution, donation of goods, or simply advocating for a cause. It’s a day that moves people to set aside money for charity, ensuring that nonprofits can highlight their mission and gain new supporters during a concentrated 24-hour window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovative fundraising: Real stories<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We asked several Intuit\u00ae Tax Pro Center<\/a> authors to give us some real-life examples of giving back in their firm or stories about their clients. Here\u2019s what they had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to highlight my brother and business partner, Joseph L. Boscia Jr., who turned his passion for cars into a powerful force for good,\u201d said Nick Boscia, CPA, EA, managing partner of Boscia & Boscia PC<\/a> and The Balanced CPA<\/a>. \u201cJoe\u2014known in the community as \u201cTaxKing\u201d\u2014recently hosted the 4th Annual Cars & Social Fundraiser<\/a> in Ocean Township, NJ, benefiting the Unterberg Children\u2019s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center. The event brought together more than 80 exotic cars and 150 attendees, and raised more than $20,000 to support the hospital\u2019s Pediatric Food Insecurity Program, pushing total donations past $50,000 since it began in 2022. As brothers and co-owners of our firm, it\u2019s been inspiring to see Joe use his entrepreneurial energy and network to make a tangible difference in our local community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of collecting monies directly for certain speaking engagements, I have some clients who ask their own clients and customers to donate the speaking engagement monies to their favorite charity,\u201d said April Moore, MBA, owner of Moore Accounting, LLC<\/a>. \u201cIf my clients typically itemize their personal returns, I encourage them to collect their fees and make the donations themselves in order to increase their itemized deductions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’ve got a client, Jonathan Miller Architects<\/a>, who is quite generous with their business,” said Ben Curtis, CPA, president and partner of Good Measure<\/a>. Ben listed some of the activities his client has done in the past year, and on a recurring basis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n