Spending millions on holiday shows and advertising instead of actually feeding and housing people is also disqualifying. (TikTok screencap)
Spending millions on holiday shows and advertising instead of actually feeding and housing people is also disqualifying. (TikTok screencap)
I used to think this too, and it’s going around because it’s excellent and plausible outrage bait.
…But as of now, that is not how it works. They are simply a collection point for the nonprofit / charity / whatever, and cannot use customers’ donations to offset their own taxes.
I agree though, folks should just donate straight to good causes, but these “round up” campaigns actually generate a lot of money for charity organizations, and villainizing them is counter productive.
A few articles about this:
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/
All that said: Yes, scumbag corpos should be strongarmed to pay their damn taxes, and those taxes should go to the public good instead of warships and corruption!