A concise desk reference covering the waterfront on tax considerations that arise in charitable gift planning -- contribution limits, carryforwards, bargain sales, gift annuities, split-interest trusts, private foundation excise tax rules, etc. In an accessible narrative style, we take the various gift planning vehicles with which the reader already has some passing familiarity and situate them in their tax policy contexts, so that she can readily understand not only what are the rules, but also why those are the rules. And then with that knowledge, how to tweak these vehicles to meet the particular needs of the prospective donor and the recipient charity.