Why give your car away for free?

Why give your car away for free?

Got any old cars or other vehicles that you don’t want anymore? Or buying a new car and thinking of disposing the old one? Well you can always donate your old vehicles to the charitable organizations around your locality, and they will repair it and make use of it in various charitable purposes.

Why give your car for free?

Technically, if you’re a tax paying citizen, then you’re not giving away your car for free. Your donation would sum up to a legitimate donation that will get you tax deductions while paying your income tax. Yes if you were to sell your car then you will have to pay tax for that income you generated by selling your car. But if you were to donate the car, its value will be regarded as a loss to you in computing your tax income. So, it will decrease your tax liability. Of course you’re not getting the full worth of your car this way, but then you get to have the feeling that you’re doing something good for your community and the needy people all around the world, for very low cost in your part.

Whom to give your car?

There are many charitable organizations dealing in donated vehicles. It’s a very long list. You can search one nearest to you by using internet browsing. There are also some manufacturers who take your cars as donated and repair them, and then give them to the charitable organizations on your behalf by taking from such charitable organizations only the repairing cost on their part. The legal works and gestures for your tax purpose will be easy enough as the charitable organizations have hired experts solely for the purpose to guide you through this process.

How will your car be used?

Either your car will be sold and the proceeds from there be used for some charitable purposes or they can also use your cars after a bit repair for transporting foods and other materials and even volunteers to places of need. This way your car can go different places helping the needy people around the globe.

Why donate at all?

The donations, for some people, seem unnecessary, not because they don’t want to help others but because they think that they can do this on their own without interference from any charitable organizations. They think they can themselves help poor people by giving away food to those poor people near them, or clothes or even shelter for that matter. But when you see the big picture there are places where there are people in need but nobody like you near them who can help them. And trust me they are in far more need than the poor people that you see every day. These are the victims of war or any natural calamities.

The role of the charitable organizations become vital here. They collect all the helps that people like you can give and take that help to the people in real need. A single man like you or a few man like you may not be able to help you but the purpose of the charitable organization is to make hundreds and thousands of people like you help those needy people. Only this way the help matters.