Giving

Poor give relativly more to charity then the rich. Research (in Dutch) shows the poor (less then 8k income) give 2,45% of their income to charity and 1,71 to religious institutions. The rich (above 48k income) only 0,87% to charity and 0,77% to religious organizations.

In Holland, when you give over 1% of your income, it's tax deductable. So this would mean almost everybody could decuduct it, and I very much doubt that. So I have my doubt at the research to be honest. But it wouldn't suprise me if the outcome is correct, just the percentages are bad.

Personally, I try to give 1% of my income to charity every year. This is a couple of hundred euro's every year and that seems to be a lot according to many. But guess what? I just do it because I want to, not because of what other people think. I also only give to stuff I find important, so nature gets some money, poverty a lot but many Dutch institions I can't really care about.