Not that I know of, but I know many people who don’t claim as many write-offs as they probably could. I don’t claim as much as I could. I don’t want to push it and then be audited.
On the opposite end I’ve known people who buy clothes for their entire family and put it on their business and taking their family to dinner. They deduct their entire cable bill, including television service when the business has nothing to do with watching TV. I probably could have legitimately added some clothing I bought for work when I owned a golf cart repair, but I didn’t do it.
If the deficit was closer to zero maybe a billionaire would donate money, but the country is so in debt even a billion dollars only makes a small dent. Plus, I think the government needs to show more care about wanting a balanced budget for anyone to consider donating a significant amount of money.
I’m in the US.
I think in Qatar the King spends a lot of his own money on building things for the country?