I outrageously copied this from some page on the net that I encountered.....
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“In Canada, there’s a law that is just blatantly wrong and foolish. It has to do with what happens to your taxes when you give away some of your money.
If you donate cash to a registered charity, you can write off the first $200 at 17% (that is, if you earn $30000, and you give away $200 to Greenpeace, or Amnesty International, or a church or homeless shelter, you can pretend you earn $30000 - (17% of $200 = $34) = $29966. After the first $200, the write-off goes to a whopping 29%.
If you donate cash to a political party, you can write off 100%. That is, if you give money to a political party, you can pretend you never earned that money - pay no tax on it.
If tax write-offs are meant to give you incentives for doing something, the law is plainly self-serving and grasping on the part of the legislators.
My solution: Found a new party, the Eoylen Party. It runs candidates in the minimum number of ridings, and does the absolute minimum stuff required to exist as a political party. What it does is launder your charitable donations.
If you give money to the Eoylen Party, it gives it to the charity you specified, taking off only what is necessary to administer the transactions (which can be web-based and run by volunteers, which means the overhead can be kept low), and to pay the deposit to run candidates. So your donations are now 100% tax-write offs, and the charities all benefit.
The result is surely the way it should be.
Then we just dare the politicians to legislate the loophole closed.
No doubt a tax lawyer, or even a competent accountant could tell me why this idea is impossible. If so, send me Feedback.”