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[quote=Anonymous]We have donated two cars.  You pick the charity that you want, you contact them (one we called on the phone, one we found on-line) and you open a charitable donation request.  You provide all the information, they give you instructions and will come and tow it away.  If they can reuse it (like Vehicles for Change), you will get a tax deduction for the full KBB value of the car.  If they can't, they will auction the car off and you will get a tax deduction or the amount they can auction it for.  You get the documentation emailed and Snail-mailed to you and you put it into your taxes for the next year.

So much easier than spending a bunch of time trying to find someone who will actually purchase it.  In my case, I drove my car into the ground.  There were multiple systems failing on the car and it wasn't really drivable.  I still got an $850 deduction for the car. Most importantly, I just put it in the driveway.  They scheduled a time to pick it up.  A hour or so before the time, I put the keys and the title in the glove compartment, and they came and towed it away and I was done.  About 2-3 months later, I had the paperwork I needed for my taxes, dropped it in the drawer with all of our other charitable receipts and it was ready to put on my taxes the following March.  Done.  [/quote]

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