Tag: regulation

Got a very kind and thoughtful e-mail from Rob Reich at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, whose 2005 article A Failure of Philanthropy in the Stanford Social Innovation Review poses important questions about the tax subsidy to giving.  For example, if rich families give to the schools their children attend, then they […]

Story on the BBC website today that the English Charity Commission has started looking in to the charitable status of a number of private schools.  This raises questions of how tightly the state should regulate the charity sector – some say ‘not at all’, others point to the generous tax breaks that charities receive as […]