On December 30, you decide to make a $2,500 charitable donation. If you are in the 28

Question:

On December 30, you decide to make a $2,500 charitable donation. If you are in the 28 percent tax bracket, how much will you save in taxes for the current year? If you deposit that tax savings in a savings account for the next five years at 4 percent, what will be the future value of that account?

Future Value
Future value (FV) is the value of a current asset at a future date based on an assumed rate of growth. The future value (FV) is important to investors and financial planners as they use it to estimate how much an investment made today will be worth...