August 10, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Using statistics from the Internal Revenue Service, RIA — a tax-information publisher — has calculated the average deductions for charitable contributions taken by taxpayers in 1998 in six tax brackets:
| Income | Average contribution 1998 |
| 0-$14,999 | $1,173 |
| $15,000-29,999 | $1,565 |
| $30,000-49,999 | $1,635 |
| $50,000-99,999 | $2,163 |
| $100,000-199,999 | $3,618 |
| $200,000 and over | $19,471 |
Average deductions ranged from $1,173 for taxpayers in the lowest income bracket of zero to $14,999, to $19,471 for those with incomes of $200,000 and over.
RIA, formerly known as the Research Institute of America, based its estimates on data from the I.R.S. that were published in the government’s Statistics of Income Bulletin for spring 2000 (The Chronicle, July 13).
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