Tax avoidance is one of the purposes of charity, but tax avoidance is not the source of charity. Charity is culturally derived from the Christian cultural tradition. Your wealth is only entrusted to God and will be returned to God after death. People who come to this world with "original sin" need to "atone" in some way, and charity is one of them (especially for the rich) Culture will always win people's hearts before the law. With this cultural atmosphere, there will be subsequent legal norms. It is precisely because westerners have this religious consciousness-oriented charity culture tradition that they will promote the formulation of western heritage tax law in the later stage, because the social foundation and mass psychological foundation have been laid in the early stage, and it is logical from conclusion to implementation. On the other hand, because of its tax avoidance function, it will further urge the rich to hand over their assets to charitable funds, form a virtuous circle of culture and law, and promote the recognition of charity by the whole society. Even if they know about tax avoidance, they are like Bill Gates and Buffett.

On the contrary, like China, there is a general lack of knowledge about wealth management since ancient times. The so-called "making money and benefiting the world" does not mean that if you have money, you must help the world, but that if you succeed in officialdom, you must pass on your good idea of governing the country and benefiting the world. It has nothing to do with charity itself. On the contrary, the expressions of "bad wine and meat" and "rich and heartless" are widely spread, which leads to China's failure to pave the way for charity culture and thought as in the West. If charity is only for tax avoidance, why is there no inheritance tax in China now? China's official-oriented thought led legislators to be unwilling to levy inheritance tax from the beginning, otherwise he would be the first to be shot as a vested interest and he would not start a company. Reducing enterprise income tax has nothing to do with him, and levying inheritance tax has a lot to do with him. So we are not qualified to say that others do charity to avoid taxes, and you are not even qualified to avoid taxes. The urgent task of China Charity Association is to improve the charitable donation environment in China and avoid the recurrence of events such as "Guo Meimei" and "Wenchuan Donation Misappropriation".