Unfortunately, as far as I know, no popular effective altruist charities are registered in Australia yet, so I don’t think this is possible to do there.
Also note that even if there were a tax-deductible EA charity in Australia, it’s not at all clear that your donation to the Australian charity would be tax deductible if your actual purpose was to donate via a swap to a non-tax-deductible charity.
I’d be surprised if the Australian government has made a law about what your purpose in doing an otherwise legal act (donating to an Australian charity) is :)
I’m afraid you’d be surprised by large parts of the tax code, which I think can only be described as “perverse.”
If you make an agreement “I’ll do X if in exchange you do Y,” that isn’t even a perverse case. Obviously the tax code will treat that differently than doing X without any expectation of reciprocity, and the treatment depends on Y. E.g., if Y is “give a scholarship to my child,” then this probably isn’t going to be taxed as a donation, even though both X and Y could be deductible in isolation.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, no popular effective altruist charities are registered in Australia yet, so I don’t think this is possible to do there.
Also note that even if there were a tax-deductible EA charity in Australia, it’s not at all clear that your donation to the Australian charity would be tax deductible if your actual purpose was to donate via a swap to a non-tax-deductible charity.
I’d be surprised if the Australian government has made a law about what your purpose in doing an otherwise legal act (donating to an Australian charity) is :)
I’m afraid you’d be surprised by large parts of the tax code, which I think can only be described as “perverse.”
If you make an agreement “I’ll do X if in exchange you do Y,” that isn’t even a perverse case. Obviously the tax code will treat that differently than doing X without any expectation of reciprocity, and the treatment depends on Y. E.g., if Y is “give a scholarship to my child,” then this probably isn’t going to be taxed as a donation, even though both X and Y could be deductible in isolation.