Sarah Ford | August 31, 2012

Will the GOP Platform Protect Charitable Deductions?

Republicans meeting this week in Tampa, Fla., adopted a platform that vowed to protect tax incentives for donors, but they have otherwise offered few clues about how a Romney-Ryan White House would affect nonprofits.

The platform made no mention of what would happen to national-service programs, nor does it talk much about other programs that support charities directly except for touting the value of aid that foundations and charities provide overseas and calling for an overhaul of domestic antipoverty assistance. >Read more from The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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