By the end of the year the associations do their accounts and the morale is not good. Many of them have found a consequent fall in donations in their favour, in particular due to the various tax changes that had occurred in the year by the executive. In the line of sight, the replacement of the tax on wealth (ISF) by the tax on the real estate asset (IFIS) on January 1, 2018. For those subject to this tax yesterday to the ISF, today in the IFI - it is possible to obtain a reduction in tax in case of donation(s) to a recognized association of public utility. However, the number of taxable persons has dropped by more than half during the transition, and the change of taxation rules. Direct result: the number of likely donors has also declined drastically. But this is not all, the concerns vis-à-vis the CSG or the withholding at the source, which will enter into application at the end of January, also weigh in the balance. And it feels it...

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donations for the League against cancer, for example, collapsed to 8 million euros this year. A decline "unprecedented" as the association assigns to the crisis and the "income tax uncertainties". "We are catastrophés. In general, we try not to yell at the wolf, but here, we are really concerned", indicates, in this sense, Christophe Leroux, director of communications of the League. "Our loyal donors tell us that they cancel their donations because they need to help their family, or they procrastinate because they are lost from the point of view of tax, between the CSG and the collection at the source", he says. The decline in donations may threaten research projects or the financing of awareness raising actions. "We should make choices, to maintain the help people who are ill," says Christophe Leroux.

"in The first half, we have experienced a drop in donations of 6.5 %. Given the fiscal context, and the socio-economic, the second half is not going to be terrible no more", says his side France Generosities. Same sound of bell on the side of the Telethon, which has seen its collection of donations to reach this year's 69 million euros against 75 million in 2017. "It is complicated for us to make the share of things between the events of the end of the year and tax reform, but it is certain that we have had to face in 2018 to circumstances quite special," says Claire Schiller from Echoes .

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moreover, the catholic Church has found, also, during the first nine months of the year, a decrease of 2.2% in the "denier", its main resource. "In 2018", the"warning indicator" turned "red", stressed Ambroise Laurent, deputy secretary-general of the CEF in charge of finance. "For the first time, if the statistics at September 30, the end of the year, we would have a decline of 2.2%" of the penny. And 5% by integrating "the gifts that were made with a deduction ISF (Tax on fortune). Three phenomena explain the decrease of 2018, according to Ambroise Laurent: the "way of deduction at source (which) has caused a wait-and-see", the decline in donations TFR (from 55% to the penny) because of the removal of this tax, and concerns over "the economic and social situation", which have an impact on the generosity of the French people".