A coalition representing hundreds of organizations and companies in the charitable sector is urging Congress to permanently restore a charitable deduction for non-itemizers to address a “troubling long-term decline” in the number of Americans giving to charity.
The bill would restore a charitable deduction for non-itemizers, this time allowing them to deduct up to one-third of the current standard deduction in charitable gifts annually.
Permanently enacting this legislation would help incentivize all taxpayers, “providing the same support for lower- and middle-income Americans to give more to charity that the tax code currently provides only to the more affluent,” the coalition said in its letter dated December 3, 2024.
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