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Omaha Steve

(99,704 posts)
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 10:32 AM Feb 2018

How many DUers use the $3 Presidential Election check mark on IRS taxes? [View all]


The Presidential Election Campaign fund is often forgotten on tax returns. It doesn't increase your tax OR reduce your refund.

Marta and I do it every year.

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The presidential election campaign fund checkoff appears on US income tax return forms as the question Do you want $3 of your federal tax to go to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund? ... Both the Republican and Democratic nominees in the general election receive a fixed amount of checkoff dollars.


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I (we) do it every year
9 (60%)
I (we) skip it every year
5 (33%)
Don't know anything about it
0 (0%)
I do it when I remember it
1 (7%)
other (feel free to explain)
0 (0%)
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