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Outrage after airport self-service checkout asks for 18% tip
(www.the-independent.com)
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It’s a common misconception but it is in fact illegal to claim other’s donations as donations by the corporation, and it’s not too likely that very large organisations would do that. Of course, it’s possible they’re breaking the law. It is also irritating. Why doesn’t the multibillion company just make the donation instead of harassing me.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
Wait.
My donation it's not an income, it's just a donation. So it has its own "reference".
When the company will declare how much donation has done in the year my money will be added to that count there. In Sweden gov gives a tax break of about 30% of the donation's total amount and I guess my money will be counted there.
I don't see any other reasonable reason to mob your own customer at any purchase.
It's a way for them to appear charitable without having to fork over the money.
Also they get to choose which charity gets the money, so that can be a way for upper management to trade favors with other people in upper management on the charity or its board or, even worse, to actually put money on specific people's hands - I keenly remember when it came out that the way the IKEA owner evaded taxes in Switzerland was a convoluted ownership structure that ended up paying dividends to a registered charity in Luxembourg whose stated purposed was "The advance of interior decoration arts" and which paid for all the expenses of said IKEA owner.
Point is, there are a lot of fishing yet entirely legal things that can be done with the customer's charitable donations when a company controls which charities get it, especially since the criteria for something to be a registered Charity in certain legal jurisdictions (most notably Luxembourg and pretty much all British Crown Territories) are incredibly weak.
If you want to give money to Charity, chose yourself which and do it after at least some due diligence to filter out the ones which aren't actually using most of the money on their stated charitable objectives.
If you go door-knocking asking for donation to help the needy, you are not permitted to claim the cash as your donation. If you collect 1000 kr from your neighborhood and add 100 to it from yourself, you can claim 100 kr. Not the 1100 kr. It is the same with stores.
But Swedish and USA law may differ here.
Hopefully I'm wrong there. Still hard to understand why they want to bake that stuff in every single purchase made by card. People don't like it. Probably they're just happy to could show how much "we" donate on their campaign.
Btw, it would be much nicer if they say something like.."we would double any amount you give". That makes much more sense to me but it's not what's happening.