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Bequests to Charities Examined in IRS Study

A study of estates by the Internal Revenue Service shows that in 2004 — the most recent tax year for which information is available — people who died and left larger estates were more likely to make a charitable bequest than those with smaller estates and, on average, gave away a larger portion of their gross...

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