A system and method for recording and tracking charitable donations over a
period of one or more years, and for determining the tax consequence
associated with such donations based upon taxing authority guidelines
(including laws, regulations, rules, guidelines or other mandates)
applicable to the time period in which such donations were made. One
aspect of the invention is directed to a method implemented by software
for tracking charitable donations over a period of years whereby a user
is prompted to select a donation and a year in which the donation was
made from a memory; the software retrieves a tax deductible valuation
associated with that donation and stores the donation and value in the
memory in association with each other. Another aspect of the invention is
directed to a system for determining the tax deductible value of
charitable donations whereby a partner server electronically captures
sales data of items and sends the sales data to a system server that
stores such data in memory.