A state legislator proposes a tax change that he believes would boost donations to charities that’re helping tsunami victims. Representative Doug Struyk, a republican from Council Bluffs, wants to allow Iowans a deduction for the 2004 tax year on any tsuanim-related charitable donation made from January 1st through the 31st.Struyk says it should provide a greater incentive to make a contribution for tsunami victims because you wouldn’t have to wait to get your tax deduction.Struyk says his proposal is identical to what Senator Charles Grassley is trying to do at the federal level. Struyk doesn’t know if this is the first such attempt to provide this kind of a speeded-up tax incentive for charitible contributions, but he says the scope of the tsunami disaster convinced him lawmakers should try the move if it might help boost charitable aid to the devastated region.
