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The Deduction Reduction: Threat to American Giving?

March 30, 2009
by Bradley Center

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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the Bradley Center's March 30 panel discussion entitled

The Deduction Reduction:

Gifts to Charity part of IRS Form

Threat to American Giving?

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

Cordes, Aviv, Reich, Riley, and Schambra

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget includes a provision that many charities consider a substantial threat to American giving: a proposal to raise the top personal income tax rates, while reducing the tax benefit from itemized deductions for the top two brackets. But how serious a blow would this be to charitable activity? What does research tell us about the effects of the charitable tax deduction on giving? What about other pressures on giving in today’s difficult economic times? And is it fair that the wealthy should benefit disproportionately from the deduction?

On Monday, March 30, Hudson Institute's Bradley Center hosted a panel discussion these questions and others featuring Stanford University's ROB REICH, DIANA AVIV of Independent Sector, George Washington University's JOSEPH CORDES, and NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY of The Wall Street Journal. The Bradley Center’s WILLIAM SCHAMBRA moderated the discussion.

Program and Panel

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
JOSEPH CORDES, George Washington University. Click here to view Mr. Cordes' presentation
ROB REICH, Stanford University
DIANA AVIV, Independent Sector
NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY, The Wall Street Journal

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment

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To request further information on this event or the Bradley Center, please contact Kristen at (202) 974-2424 or kmcintyre@hudson.org.

Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal aims to explore the usually unexamined intellectual assumptions underlying the grantmaking practices of America’s foundations and provide practical advice and guidance to grantmakers who seek to support smaller, grassroots institutions in the name of civic renewal.

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