Doctors Without Borders refused a donation of one million vaccine doses from Pfizer: The heart of the refusal—which could well imperil children who would have received those vaccines—is a principled stand against the extremely high cost of many vaccines.'

The value of items they donate to charity is deducted from their taxable income, it is not deducted from the taxes that are due.

If a company's gross taxable income is $100,000 and they donated inventory valued at $10,000 (that cost $4,000 to make), then their taxable income net of the allowable deduction is $90,000. If they pay 30% in taxes, then their tax burden is $27,000 on that $90,000 instead of what would have been $30,000 for the $100,000, so they saved $3000 on their taxes, BUT it cost them $4000 in production and manufacturing costs for the goods they donated, so they still lose a grand, all told. A business would not ramp up production just to donate the products unless they were seeing a 70%+ profit margin on those products, and once you add in the labor costs and any operating expenses that would go up as a result of producing more goods like administration costs, salaries, plants and equipment, that pretty much never happens. There are many reasons a company might donate goods but I can't imagine a situation where a business would do so as a income-generating activity because it is virtually impossible for a business to end up ahead in terms of making a "profit" on the tax savings.

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