+Given that they have had to cancel or scale back programs and events, interrupting their funding and leading to layoffs, that’s an issue that the Legislature could remedy through bill ...
+The Center for Non-Profits and the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers and others...
+The Center for Non-Profits, with the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, surveyed more than 280 Garden State charitable organizations in July and found that 166 of them had lost close to $200 million in revenue, due in part to cancelled programs...
+A bill to enact the deduction was already approved by the Senate in March but it has not moved in the Assembly, where it is still pending before that chamber’s Budget Committee.
+New Jersey’s nonprofits lack racial diversity and frequently pay high-level women employees less than their male counterparts, according to a report released Friday.
+The tax applies to things such as as free parking, employer-subsidized transit fares and even flexible spending accounts such as the pre-tax deductions for mass transportation expenses, said Linda Czipo, president and chief executive of the...
+“The charitable deduction is only available to taxpayers who itemize and because the standard deduction has been raised, fewer taxpayers will be able to take advantage of itemizing and fewer taxpayers will be able to take charitable deductions,”...
+Meanwhile, other concerns about the workaround have come from the state’s nonprofit community, which is already worried that the Trump tax overhaul could lead to fewer donations being made by New Jersey residents due to the increased standard...
+Linda M. Czipo, CEO and president of the center, said nonprofits not only improve lives by promoting vital programs and services, but are critical to the state’s economic engine as employers.
+We know from IRS data and New Jersey’s Center for Nonprofits that, in fact, lower-income families donate a higher percentage of their income to charity than higher-income taxpayers do.
