With the current tax code in the US, a bunch of random Salvation Army donations or expenses for volunteer activities are mostly not very interesting unless you have much larger deductions as well. For specific relatively large value donations like cars, you'll typically have an independent assessment.

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adastra22 2 days ago | parent [-]

And that independent assessor will ask you “sale or insurance?” They are in on the scam.

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ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-]

In my case it was just a letter from the 501(c)(3) organization acknowledging the donation. I can't speak to how the valuation was done.

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Suppafly a day ago | parent [-]

Goodwill or whoever has their own guidelines for how much they value stuff, presumably somewhat related to what they can sell it for.

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adastra22 a day ago | parent [-]

Goodwill's system is that they give you pre-signed receipt and you fill in whatever you like.

	▲	Suppafly 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not how it's supposed to work, but I won't claim that some of them don't do that.