TLDR: Something I've seen and always wondered: If you donate a portion of your wage through your employer to a charity, who gets the tax write off?
Used to work for an international shipping company. Not the brown one, but the green & purple one. About this time of year they would be encouraging us, sometimes even giving us food, to sign up for automatic deductions from our paychecks to charities of our choice.
Usually they'd make it easy and have a select few charities that you could check a box for after signing off. All for charity, so used to donate $50/month to some anti-cancer cause.
Stopped doing it my last year of working there because I could not figure out who gets the tax write off on this. If it's us, cool, but why so much effort by the corporation to facilitate this? Corporations rarely do things from the good of their hearts.
And if it is them, then damn, that's one hell of way to get a tax write off AND wage theft.
Assuming it's them: Technically it's not wage theft because we sign off on it and volunteer (huzzah, free sandwich!). But it's more money that's not coming outta their profits but instead of the labor of their workers and purely being used to enhance their wealth, not the workers. Was also next to impossible to stop once you signed up: Had to request to stop it at the same time next year (which I did) OR jump through a bunch of steps that consumed a lot of time.
Anyone else run across this?