Ss wrote: > My personal choice is to let money slip out to people (usual casual > workers) who depend on me for some of their income in the first place.
That's a good idea .. what I tend to do is donate to a charity that my cousin helps run (a dharmashala / free hostel for the Adyar cancer hospital) .. that hospital attracts some very poor patients indeed, and drugs like cisplatin cost quite a lot. My wife on the other hand prefers to give to temples, for what they term "annadhanam" .. sure, that gets 80G deduction too, like the charity does. At least with the charity I know its well run, having seen it for myself.
