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  • More from SmartMoney Year End Tax Tips More Year End Tax Tips Expiring Business Break Experts often advise giving appreciated assets—such as shares of stock—rather than cash, because the donor avoids capital-gains tax and can get a full deduction for the gift's value.

    The Tax Mess Deepens Laura Saunders 2011

  • With the work in that condition, Houghton began to disperse various pictorial pages, first as a gift to the Met, then as a way to establish the gift's tax value by selling other pages, and again in a straight sale of a painted page—perhaps the book's finest—to the Aga Khan.

    Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011

  • How is it legal, in America, to accept someone's gift, only to discard their expressed wishes as to the gift's disposition?

    Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations 2010

  • Long coveted by several museums, the gift's 200 furniture objects will force the gallery to create a new setting, most likely in proximity to its European decorative arts.

    NGA's most extensive gift in half-century expands decorative collection Jacqueline Trescott 2010

  • Long coveted by several museums, the gift's 200 furniture objects will force the Gallery to create a new setting, most likely in proximity to its European decorative arts.

    National Gallery Gets a Gift of Decorative Arts Jacqueline Trescott 2010

  • Such honesty would undermine the gift's intended effect.

    When Corporate Theft Is Good 2010

  • It just seems that religion does not lend itself to anything other than a social context in which one can 'practice being a part of humanity...by using one's gift's.

    Evolution in a Christian Context James F. McGrath 2009

  • Princeton said it had been faithful to the gift's intent but agreed last year to pay $100 million to settle the case.

    New Unrest on Campus as Donors Rebel 2009

  • Community activists and civil-rights organizations are criticizing Auburn's leaders for accepting the gift's terms that the park carry the Shockley name, and they are demanding that the town keep Mr. Shockley's name off the park or give the land back.

    Donor's Views on Race Spark Outcry Over Parkland 2009

  • A trust has made a matching grant of 10% of your future gift's value, if you're willing to tell the ACLU how much you think that will be.

    ACLU da_lj 2007

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