Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!v.wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA From: v.wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: How to solve NASA's budget problems Message-ID: <536@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 14:03:26 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.536 Posted: Wed Apr 4 14:03:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Apr-84 06:38:39 EST Lines: 33 From: Rich Wales Martin -- In reply to your message: Date: 24 Mar 84 9:34:05-PST (Sat) To: space @ Mit-Mc From: decvax!linus!utzoo!dciem!mmt @ Ucb-Vax Subject: Re: How to Solve NASA's budget problems In-Reply-To: Article <640@pyuxa.UUCP> In Canada, there is a tax deduction for "Gifts to Canada or to a Province". Don't you have the same? According to the U.S. Federal tax return instruction booklet, you can contribute money to the government by mailing (along with your tax return and tax payment) a separate cheque made out to "Bureau of the Public Debt". Such a gift can be claimed as a deduction for Federal tax purposes, up to some limit (the total of all your contributions to all recipients combined cannot exceed 20% of your income, I believe). I suspect that most (if not all) states allow this same deduction for purposes of their own income taxes -- possibly with a different upper limit than 20%. I can't say for sure what the situation is nationwide because each state has its own tax laws. As far as I can tell, there is no way to earmark such a contribution as being specifically for NASA. And I don't know whether there is any other mechanism available for contributing directly to this or that fed- eral agency. (I suspect there is not.) -- Rich