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| Topic Started: Dec 31 2012, 11:49 AM (1,147 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Dec 31 2012, 11:49 AM Post #1 |
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I seems that at various businesses there is some cause which it wants to support — using customers’ money. Would this not be a huge tax deduction for such businesses that obtain on our toonie and then, the self- congratulatory ads as to how much the business donated to the community soccer team or other cause? This, when parents have been doing bottle drives and car washes year round. Entertainers brag about how much they donated to a specific charity but was it really from their own pockets or the pockets of those they entertained and thus taking credit? Your thoughts? Do you donate at your supermarket, liquor store, department store, etc.? |
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| erka | Dec 31 2012, 11:58 AM Post #2 |
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Toodles: I always say no, because I want the tax credit! Once a customer ahead gave this reply: If you take x dollars off my grocery bill, I will donate the same amount!! |
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| angora | Dec 31 2012, 12:00 PM Post #3 |
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If this money goes to someone who needs it, I am more than glad to donate it. I've been lucky and I want to help those who havent been. |
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| campy | Dec 31 2012, 01:21 PM Post #4 |
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I'm a sucker for every cause imaginable at checkout counters and in store ticket sales. Especially for kid's sports teams. |
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| wildie | Dec 31 2012, 02:07 PM Post #5 |
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Me too! I have decided how much I will donate to charity and make this donation by payroll deduction on my pension cheque. It come off every month, regularly. Not hit and miss! These donations are recorded on my T slips and I'm able make a claim when I do my income tax. |
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| Kahu | Dec 31 2012, 02:53 PM Post #6 |
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If the charity is clearly shown at the check out ..... the loose change goes into the jar! I draw the line at donating anything to Pakistan or India ..... any country who had nuclear capability can surely support their own! |
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| agate | Dec 31 2012, 03:55 PM Post #7 |
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I like how the cachier does it at safeway...I think it is the cancer one. She asks everyone if they would like to round up their bill...even if it is only a few cents. She gave me a figure of what she collects, though I now forget it but she does the cancer foundation very well. |
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| campy | Dec 31 2012, 05:53 PM Post #8 |
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Wildie. That is so cold I can't even think of doing something like that. It's just too impersonal. I like to see the smile on a kid's face when I buy a raffle ticket from him or a bag of candy or whatever they are selling. How can you do that with a payroll deduction? |
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| Deleted User | Dec 31 2012, 06:06 PM Post #9 |
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Campy - it is not about the kid selling cookies for scouts or raising money for their baseball uniforms or the Salvation Army ... it is about STORES having their clerks or cashiers asking for donations on the store's behalf for a donation to a specific cause they chose. |
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| Alli | Dec 31 2012, 08:55 PM Post #10 |
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Absolutely, if I have it I will give it. I'm not going to be a cheapskate over a few nickels & dimes or a couple of loonies. These stores support many causes like Children's Wish Foundation Ronald McDonald House, Miracle Network I'm not going to worry over a tax receipt for that pittance that may help someone especially a child ion the long run. |
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| Darcie | Jan 1 2013, 02:20 AM Post #11 |
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I do not give to charities at check out counters or hanging along streets, I think it is sort of an intimidating tactic and don't want to help perpetrate the system. I do give to homeless people and I have been known to pay a local restaurant to feed a particular homeless person daily. I give to United Appeal and to a couple of other charities, why because I know the groups that United Appeal has under their umbrella and what stringent yearly examinations they go through. The other two charities are some that are 'unpopular diseases'. Everyone gives to the Heart or Cancer groups (they are popular diseases) while other very important research is needed in ALS and other neurological illnesses. |
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| angora | Jan 1 2013, 02:25 AM Post #12 |
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Campy, I'm with you on this one. |
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| heatseeker | Jan 1 2013, 02:36 AM Post #13 |
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I got so sick of being hustled for two bucks by the guvmint liquor store clerks that I now order my wine from a broker and have it delivered. |
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| campy | Jan 1 2013, 02:46 AM Post #14 |
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So what? If it's for a good cause what's the problem? Prostate cancer research is at Safeways. And you buy a ticket and have a chance to win something. No one is obligated are they. So what is the real complaint? Saying no thank you is not in your vocabulary? Edited by campy, Jan 1 2013, 02:49 AM.
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| heatseeker | Jan 1 2013, 02:49 AM Post #15 |
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The real complaint is that we should be left alone when we shop, and not hustled for spare change or donations. There are enough people doing that on the sidewalk outside without facing the same thing inside. |
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