It looks like we're in for a giving year. Eighty-two percent of Americans who itemized charitable deductions on their 2017 tax returns plan to maintain or increase their giving this year, according to a survey released this week by Fidelity Charitable.
The downside is that the poll also found that 58 percent of donors still planned to itemize in 2018, even though in the new tax landscape, that's not always appropriate. Many donors may not have fully worked out how the increased standard deduction in the revised tax code affects them.
For example, half of households with incomes of less than $100,000 currently plan to itemize their 2018 taxes, the survey showed. Fidelity Charitable said most of these donors will likely discover that their itemizations, including charitable donations, will not push their total deduction amount past the newly enacted standard deduction thresholds, of $12,000 for singles and $24,000 for married couples.
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