| PBCC’s Income Tax Check-Off
Raises $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Researchers
(Ephrata, PA) As we approach tax season, PA residents can use their
pen to aid in the fight against breast cancer. Just by checking line
35 on tax form PA 40, Pennsylvania residents can donate all or part
or their state income tax refunds to breast and cervical cancer research.
Since the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition’s Income Tax
Check-Off was signed into law in 1997, this highly successful and unique
cancer research initiative has raised over $1.2 million for
Pennsylvania based cancer researchers. Thousands of PA taxpayers contribute
an average
of $8.00 from their refunds and recognize
the PBCC’s Income Tax
Check Off as the most popular “refund donation option.”
PBCC President and Founder, Pat Halpin-Murphy said, “When we
began the Income Tax Check-Off we knew it would provide vital, life-saving
research. The incredible success of this simple and effective way to
raise research dollars renews our commitment to find a cure for
breast cancer now… so our daughters won’t have to.©”
Ms. Halpin-Murphy co-chairs the PA Cancer Control, Prevention and
Research Advisory Board’s Income Tax Check-Off Committee, which
recommends how the refund donations should be distributed.
The PBCC, founded in 1993, is a non-profit organization dedicated
to ending the breast cancer epidemic through research, education, outreach
and advocacy. As the only statewide grassroots organization that speaks
to and for breast cancer survivors, the PBCC insured the passage of
two crucial pieces of Commonwealth legislation: The Breast and Cervical
Cancer Research Act, which allows taxpayers to donate all or part of
their state income tax refunds to breast and cervical cancer research;
and The Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery Act, which mandates insurance
coverage for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction and prohibits out-patient
mastectomies.
The PBCC serves each of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties through
the Income Tax Check-Off, Mother’s Day Mammograms®, the Keystone
Breast Cancer Conference, and 67 Women, 67
Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania.
For more information about the PBCC visit our website
at www.pabreastcancer.org or call 717/738-9567
or toll free 1-800-377-8828. |
