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S. 243, The GIVE Act of 2009 (7 comments ↓)
S. 243 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile for purposes of the charitable contributions deduction and to exclude charitable mileage reimbursements for gross income.
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Sharon McGuire OP PhD FNP BC
March 18, 2009, 10:10am (report abuse)This is such a refreshing initiative of the Obama Administration. The U.S. has for far too long not been inspired to do good although there are millions of people who do good and want to do more. This desire is respected and honored in this initiative and serves as a source of inspiration and support in their efforts by highlighting it as a National Priority. It beats the culture of greed of recent years!
Jonathan Adams
March 24, 2009, 4:01pm (report abuse)Please Sharon, call your local proctologist. So you can get your head out of your @$$.
bpdx
March 25, 2009, 10:44am (report abuse)So now forced servitude is a good thing? Are you people nuts? And don\'t call me some right wing nut for saying that. I voted against GW Bush twice.
frostice
March 25, 2009, 2:13pm (report abuse)Its amazing how the Bill sounds like one thing but introduces little changes gradually that take hold permanently. The section about the ID cards is almost like a testing of a new product. Then they are going to report to congress on it? Do you really think they will say it that it did not work lets scrap these plans? It is here to stay. And Sharon, please wake up. We know you mean well.
ANTI AMERICAN SLAVERY
March 25, 2009, 4:11pm (report abuse)This act needs to be blocked! Forcing people to volunteer! Thats not volunteering now is it. They are slowly stripping americans of their rights, they also plan to ammend the first ammendment with this act in which they take away our freedom of speech as well as our right to protest, boycott, strike and lobby against anything they do. If they pass this act it is going to be new age slavery. WAKE UP AMERICA, YOUR FUTURES GOING DOWN THE SH*TTER!
GuyHanford
(logged in user) March 29, 2009, 10:36am (report abuse)This bill is a trojan horse. it sounds good on the surface, but has all kinds of bad things, including an invasion of 1st Ammendent. Unfortunatley, the sheep in Congress didn't read the full text of the bill and voted for it anyway.
JLB
March 31, 2009, 3:06pm (report abuse)Most of the comments on this page are in the wrong location. They are speaking about S.277 and HR.1388 (The Serve America Act and the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act). The bill being referred to on this page is the Giving Incentives to Volunteers Everywhere Act aka HR.524 and S.423.
HR.524 and S.423 are both ONE page long. The companion bills seek to allow the IRS to adjust the Volunteer Mileage Reimbursement Rate, as it already does with the business rate.
The current VMRR is 14 cents per mile and was set 11 years ago when gasoline was an average of $1.25 per gallon. It currently can only be changed through an act of Congress.
The business rate is currently 55 cents per mile. It can and is changed regularly by the IRS based primarily on the changing price of gasoline.
The IRS estimates that it costs 55 cents/mile to run the average car. Currently, not only to volunteers give of their time, but also PAY the cost of running their car to volunteer.