Survey to help push for 'opt-out' gift aid system 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 20 May 2009

The push to reform gift aid into an opt-out system has gathered steam as the sector’s umbrella bodies start mining their own members for evidence to lobby Treasury.

A consortium of the sector’s leading umbrella organisations have begun a coordinated survey of their members to uncover the attitudes of charities towards changing the gift aid system to an opt-out one, wherein donors would be assumed to consent to having gift aid added to their donation.

Acevo, the Charity Finance Directors’ Group, Charity Tax Group, Institute of Fundraising, Charities Aid Foundation and NCVO have banded together to get their members to participate in an online survey about the tax-efficient giving mechanism.

Results from the survey will be used by the consortium to push HMRC and Treasury to reform gift aid. The sector made some progress in February this year when the Treasury agreed to review the rules governing gift aid ahead of the 2010 Budget so as to help charities survive the recession.

The sector has long been pushing for an opt-out gift aid system. It proposed the change in a consultation in 2007, but at the time Treasury considered the idea too complex.

Directory: Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) | HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) | Institute of Fundraising | National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
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Milly
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28 May 2009

Absolutely agree - go to the http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB22947ZZU5DA">survey immediately and get your voice heard

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