Giving More with Less!
America’s best kept secret Did you know there is a very simple way for you to significantly leverage your power to give? You can take fuller advantage of federal and state tax laws to easily give 20%, 40%, even 60% or more for the same cost of giving cash. How is this possible? Simply make your next gift in the form of stock! The following example illustrates the tremendous power of such a gift. | Assumption: A couple with an adjusted gross income of $170,000, 36% Federal Tax, 5% State Tax, 20% Federal Capital Gains Tax, 5% State Capital Gain Tax, owns stock purchased at $20/share, now worth $80/share. | | $10,000 Cash Gift | | Tax Deduction Saves | | $4,100 | | Cost of Gift | | $5,900 |
| $14,500 Stock Gift | | Tax Deduction Saves | | $5,900 | | Avoid 25% Capital Gain | | $2,700 | | Cost of Gift | | $5,900 | | Conclusion: This couple was able to donate 45% more without incurring any additional expense. |
This example shows just how powerful gifts of stock or mutual funds can be. The couple could give $14,500, or an additional $4,500, by giving stock. Their after-tax cost would be the same to them as if they gave only $10,000 in cash! Benefiting from stock giving is not just for the wealthy. A couple with an income of only $45,000 can still easily give 20% to 50% more by converting from cash to stock gifting. Even when making gifts as small as $500, giving stock lets you increase the size of your gift by $100 to $300 without increasing your after-tax cost!
Historically, the process of making stock gifts has been slow, time-consuming, and cumbersome, but now we have established a very simple way for you to make gifts online in a matter of minutes. When you go to our website and click the "Donate Stock" button, the entire process becomes fast, easy, and error-free. Your gift is handled with the highest level of security and privacy so that no unauthorized individual ever sees your information.
Even if you don’t have access to or feel comfortable using our giving tool over the Internet, you can still take full advantage of our new gift-processing service. Simply give us a call. We can take all the necessary information over the phone and provide you with everything you need to complete the gift in a matter of minutes. Using our new online service not only makes your life a breeze in completing stock gifts, but it also enables us to track every gift in real time to ensure prompt delivery into our account. Best of all, it is even possible in many cases to complete your gift on the same day you enter it into our system, minimizing the danger that the stock price could fall dramatically before the gift is complete! Still skeptical that giving could be so good? Why not try Assetstream's online stock donation calculator and see the results for yourself? 
You might be amazed at just how powerful changing the way you normally give to charity can be.
With such a great way to give, why give any other way?!
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