UK Government Gift Aid

[seraphim]

I like many others made a donation in the U.K towards the tsunami appeal. The U.K government makes a big song and dance about how charitable it's being by allowing the charities to calim back the tax they are charged on OUR donations. I for one refuse on principle to check the gift aid box, and here's why.

1. What the fuck are the goverment doing taxing donations which we make to charitable organizations. They tax us to earn the money, then they tax us again when we give money to help out people less fortunate than us. "HANDS OFF MY DONATION YOU MONEY GRABBING BLAIRITE WANKERS."

2.Did you know that in actual fact the government isn't giving fuck all to the charities you are. what follows is an extract from The Inland Revenue's website information chapter 3 paragraph 9

'Instead, donors have to pay an amount of income tax and/or capital gains tax, whether at the basic rate or some other rate, equal to the tax deducted from their donations.'

In simple terms this means that the goverment give back the tax then take it off YOU in the form of income tax so ultimately the people pay again.

I don't have any problem with making donations to worthy causes such as the tsunami appeal what i object to is the government pretending to be charitable.

[h&s]

What pisses me off is the fact that the money that the government has pledged is coming out of their existing aid budget. That means that the goevernment isn't giving away anything that they wouldn't anyway, and even worse this means that people who would otherwise recieve that aid will now go without - its robbing Peter to pay Paul.
And worse than that, its pretty much guaranteed that the majority of the money pledged by governements will not even leave a bank - some governments only payed 2% of the money they pledged after the Bam earthquake.

[bolshevik butcher]

Originally posted by h&[email protected] 28 2005, 03:18 PM
What pisses me off is the fact that the money that the government has pledged is coming out of their existing aid budget. That means that the goevernment isn't giving away anything that they wouldn't anyway, and even worse this means that people who would otherwise recieve that aid will now go without - its robbing Peter to pay Paul.
And worse than that, its pretty much guaranteed that the majority of the money pledged by governements will not even leave a bank - some governments only payed 2% of the money they pledged after the Bam earthquake.
I noticed the media managed to keep this quiet, as they did the fact that all the left wing parties weren't aloud to stand in the "iraqi "elections".