Donating to charity is a wonderful and altruistic, kind, and generous concept.

Not being able to deduct it is an unfortunate costly and ineptly orchestrated way to operate! A donation of $100 cost many taxpayers $132 of their earnings! But if done correctly often you can in fact STILL donate and get a deduction. Bunching deductions into one tax year, Qualified charitable distributions from a TRADITIONAL IRA, putting money into a TRADITIONAL IRA, while making the beneficiary the charity, gifting highly appreciated assets are 4 ways to be generous and be tax efficient with the same $$$.

In the USA we have TWO TAX systems
One for the informed
One for the uninformed