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Charitable Gifts Made By S Corporations: Opportunities And Challenges, Christopher R. Hoyt
Charitable Gifts Made By S Corporations: Opportunities And Challenges, Christopher R. Hoyt
ACTEC Law Journal
This article examines the tax opportunities and tax hazards when a subchapter S corporation makes a charitable gift. The article demonstrates that usually the shareholders of an S corporation and the charity are both better off when an S corporation makes a charitable gift compared to having a shareholder make a charitable gift of S corporation stock. Either way, the income tax benefit will be on the S corporation shareholder's personal income tax return. By having the S corporation make the gift, the parties avoid the "three bad things" that happen when a shareholder donates S corporation stock. The problems …