Gift Aid
We want to see simplifications to the
Gift Aid scheme that allow us to make the most of your generous
donations.
The Gift
Aid scheme allows charities like us to get the tax back on
donations when the people donating are UK taxpayers. This is a
really important source of income for our work to tackle heart
disease.
Gift Aid was worth £7.9m to us between
April 2009 and April 2010.
We are calling for a number of
measures to make it easier for people to add Gift Aid to their
donations and to make the scheme simpler for us to run.
We want to see:
- measures to make it simpler for
people to add Gift Aid to the items they donate to our shops.
- an
'opt-out’ system which assumes that people are
taxpayers unless they say they are not.
- a single rate
for Gift Aid claims set somewhere between basic and higher rate
tax.
- the
government investing in a public awareness campaign to help
everyone understand and use the Gift Aid scheme.
These changes would help us make the
most of the generous donations we receive, and mean we can put more
money towards our vital work.
For further information download our policy
statement or email us at policy@bhf.org.uk.