Privatized Healthcare is so awesome - eviltoast
  • End0fLine@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Insurance companies are a joke. I hate it here. I worked at a certain restaurant for years who make an entire thing out of getting donations for St. Judes a few weeks a year. What are we donating for if people still get bills like this?

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t a bill from st judes but you should know you were just soliciting a tax write off for your company. That’s why they do that stuff

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          1 year ago

          They make a donation and use people’s money to cover the cost

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            No. That isn’t how it works either. Well they might use that to meet the pr pledge but that isn’t the same as taking the deduction.

            As I told the other person if you actual have any proof to back that up report it to the IRS and collect your bounty.

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              Yesh the article I linked mentions a tiktok/meme that went around 2 years ago probably where I got it. Basically misinterprets companies getting pr with a tax writeoff

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              I think it depends how it’s being done. If they just collect the donation and hand it off it’s not helping them. Sometimes the fine print is that they’re donating a percent of sales or whatever so if you donate $5 on a $50 sale that might be a higher percentage than what they donate. Now that I’m reading about it I might be wrong https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-000329849244