September 23, 1999
'Forbes': Giving's Dangerous Games
Aggressive "charity hustlers" are marketing planned-giving schemes that have much less to do with philanthropy than with shielding assets from taxes, says Forbes magazine (September 20) in a collection of articles on giving.
"Capitalizing on Americans' generosity and aversion to taxes," the magazine says, "an army of middlemen is on the loose, peddling complex and sometimes very shaky schemes for charitable gifts."
The marketers, who include
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