How to Donate Cars to Charity

Everyone benefits when people donate cars to charity. If you donate your car, the charity benefits, because they will usually sell your car and use the proceeds to help further their mission. You also benefit when you donate your car, because people who donate cars to charity are entitled to a tax break.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

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   If you plan to donate cars to charity, the first step is to look for charities that accept used cars. Once you pick a charity to which you would like to donate your car, you should make sure that they are a nonprofit organization so that your car donation to charity will earn you a tax break. See link below for information .

2. Most charities will be extremely pleased that you have decided to donate your car; they will see your gift as a very generous donation. For this reason, charities are usually very accommodating when making arrangements to receive your car. They will usually offer to pick up the car at your house and be willing to schedule a pickup time that is convenient for you. If you would prefer, you can usually arrange to drop off your car at one of their car donation centers.

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   Before the charity comes to pick up your auto donation, you should make sure to remove the license plates, and make sure that you have removed all of your personal items from the vehicle. The charity will usually provide you with a small amount of paperwork to fill out to make your car donation official. You should save a copy of the paperwork or a receipt, so that when it is time to file your taxes you can prove that you did donate your used car to charity. Again, you can see the link below for more information about donating your car.

Tips & Warnings

• Donating used cars to charity, usually feels particularly good because it gives people a chance to make larger charitable donations than they might otherwise be able to.

Resources

• car donation guide- irs

[kittykat3]

on 3/4/2009 Everyone does benefit! 5*.

[sonni57]

on 3/3/2009 Donating a car is a great way to help others

[Scarlett9284]

on 3/3/2009 Good article, thanks!