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The Challenges for Art Donation (Part 3 of 3): Trouble with $0 Donations
When it comes to the charitable donation of art, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has increasingly adopted a predictable strategy, as outlined in part two of this series. Similar to cases involving conservation easements, the IRS can even take the position that donated art is worth $0. While this is the IRS’s most extreme position […]
The Challenges for Art Donation (Part 2 of 3): Economic Substance
As discussed in part one of this series on art donations, a taxpayer who wishes to receive a tax deduction for their charitable donation of a work of art should take several steps in anticipation of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) refusal to allow the deduction. In recent years, especially, the IRS has undertaken a […]
The Challenges for Art Donation (Part 1 of 3): An Introduction
Among the many ways that Congress uses tax laws to influence taxpayers’ spending, encouraging donations to charitable causes is perhaps the least controversial. Section 170 of Title 26 of U.S. Code, for example, has outlined Internal Revenue Service (IRS) policy on charitable contributions and gifts for decades. For many taxpayers, such donations include small payments […]