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Apparently political donations are not tax deductible .. https://polstontax.com/what-you-should-know-about-donating-to-a-political-party-taxes/ .
On the other cost to taxpayers, if it's anything like Texas good luck of ever finding out how much they cost they bear ..

The 2019 Texas inauguration cost a record $5.3 million. Where are the receipts?

The Texas Tribune is suing to discover what happened to millions raised mostly from top lobbying firms, corporations, wealthy businesspeople and trade groups for the inauguration of Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

by Jay Root and Shannon Najmabadi Oct. 9, 201912 AM Central


Air Force fighter planes fly over the state Capitol during the oath of office ceremony for Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in January. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Appointees of Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov Dan Patrick raised a record-setting $5.3 million for the 2019 inaugural festivities, two days’ worth of VIP events that included a ball with country crooner George Strait and a candlelight dinner with the state’s top elected officials.

They reported spending every dollar of it. But don’t ask for any receipts.

The Texas Tribune tried this summer to obtain expense records from multiple state agencies as well as the inaugural committee, a group of private donors appointed by Abbott and Patrick. They claim no such records exist.

“We have conducted a thorough search,” the group’s former executive director, Kim Snyder, who serves as Abbott’s campaign director, said in an email last month. “The 2019 Texas Inaugural Committee has no responsive records.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/09/2019-texas-inauguration-cost-53-million-where-are-receipts/



or exactly where the big money goes.