Donation Invoice?

First time doing this... How to do invoice a company but list it as a donation? I shot an event that was to raise money for charity. I donated my time to shoot, it was for a good cause and plan on shooting the next one as well. They have asked me to issue them an invoice for an amount I would have charged so it can be a write off for tax purposes.

Any special way of invoicing this?

Thanks

cory1848 wrote in post #11081840
First time doing this... How to do invoice a company but list it as a donation? I shot an event that was to raise money for charity. I donated my time to shoot, it was for a good cause and plan on shooting the next one as well. They have asked me to issue them an invoice for an amount I would have charged so it can be a write off for tax purposes.

Any special way of invoicing this?

Thanks

You cannot write off time as a tax deduction. You can only write off your actual incurred expenses.

the only expenses you can write off is your mileage which i believe is less than the standard deduction and the actual print costs if any, if all is it was time you are completely out of luck RD is correct

cory1848 wrote in post #11081840
First time doing this... How to do invoice a company but list it as a donation? I shot an event that was to raise money for charity. I donated my time to shoot, it was for a good cause and plan on shooting the next one as well. They have asked me to issue them an invoice for an amount I would have charged so it can be a write off for tax purposes.

Any special way of invoicing this?

Thanks

Ditto the others....You can't write off "what you would have charged them"

You CAN write off the mileage to/from the event and any actual expenses incurred.

Ok, good to know guys, thanks. I am not worried about it on my end, they just asked for it. I need to clarify that with them. Any reason why they would need something like this?

Mileage was very minimal as it was a local event and the files were all electronic.

cory1848 wrote in post #11082433
Ok, good to know guys, thanks. I am not worried about it on my end, they just asked for it. I need to clarify that with them. Any reason why they would need something like this?

Mileage was very minimal as it was a local event and the files were all electronic.

They need to track donations for their own tax purposes. You can invoice them, identify what the charges would have been (whatever you want), and bottom-line it as "no charge."

Or make a normal invoice, have them write a check for it, then endorse the check back to them as a donation.

steelsun wrote in post #11084859
Or make a normal invoice, have them write a check for it, then endorse the check back to them as a donation.

Bad idea