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Signing the pledge doesn’t duck you out of any taxes. Also, giv8ng money away can lower taxes you pay, but it doesn’t lower them as much as the amount of money you gave away. Not how it works.

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Signing the pledge doesn’t duck you out of any taxes.

  1. They transfer stock to their charitable foundation.
  2. No capital gains taxes are paid.
  3. Charity gets full value of stock.
  4. Billionaire donor gets a tax deduction on that year’s taxes.
  5. Charity is a tax exempt charity and never pays taxes when they choose to sell the stock.
  6. Unlike any other charity, the charity is owned/ran by them so they dictate how the money gets used including paying themselves, friends, family administrative salaries if they choose.

No taxes paid and a tax deduction was earned AND the money is still in their control.

Example of Tax Savings on Donated Stock

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Then they didn’t actually give the money away, and they still aren’t saving or making more money themselves by doing that.

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Then they didn’t actually give the money away, and they still aren’t saving or making more money themselves by doing that.

No capital gains tax is being paid!
They aren’t selling 100 million in stock, paying the capital gains tax and then giving $80 million cash to the charity.
They are gifting $100 million in shares.

So, you keep claiming they aren’t saving - yes, they are! They pay no capital gains tax!

Please, if you would like to reply again do so with a link which proves what I just stated as false. Thanks.

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