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The Honorable Ron Wyden July 17, 2015 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Wyden:
We write to you today regarding three important charitable tax provisions that we understand will be part of legislation brought forward soon in the Senate Finance Committee: the food donation tax deduction, the enhanced incentive for land conservation, and the IRA charitable rollover.
Our charitable organizations and the networks we represent in Oregon are grateful for your continued support in seeing these important incentives made permanent.
We are pleased that Senate leadership appears to be in favor of a two-‐year extension for the incentives and support this effort. However, we continue to look for a permanent solution to these critical provisions. We believe that permanency, as included in the America Gives More Act, is the real solution to the ongoing uncertainty our constituents contend from the short-‐term extensions we have seen in years past.
As the Senate Finance Committee prepares to discuss the tax extenders, we would like to share with you our common priorities. In order, they are:
1. Permanency for the tax provisions contained in the America Gives More Act. 2. A two-‐year extension of the three tax provisions, including the expanded food donation
tax deduction. 3. A two-‐year extension of the three provisions, as included in the Chairman’s current markup.
Our organizations collectively work to address Oregon’s greatest needs, from its land to its people. We cannot overstate the impact increases in voluntary giving will have on priorities such as education, conservation of open spaces and hunger relief.
We are grateful for your strong support for these incentives and look forward to continuing to work with you and your staff to renew and make permanent the food donation tax deduction, the enhanced incentive for land conservation, and the IRA charitable rollover.
Respectfully,
Susannah Morgan CEO, Oregon Food Bank.
Jim White ED, Nonprofit Association of Oregon
Jeff Clarke CEO, Philanthropy Northwest
Kelley Beamer ED, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts