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Possible new features - UK Gift Aid


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This is our specification for the UK Gift Aid (GA) scheme under which income tax paid by the donor on gifts to charities and other qualifying bodies such as public sports clubs, can be reclaimed. If anyone can see anything wrong or anything else which is required, please let us know.

Every Contact (Member) to have a flag indicating that the GA declaration has been signed. We are not going to cater for when they signed because GA seems to be retrospective anyway. If they cease to pay income tax, run relevant reports before resetting the flag to no GA.

Every Activity to have a flag indicating whether that Activity is eligible for GA or not and, optionally, a percentage to be applied to the total. This percentage is to support cases where any profit on an activity can be regarded as a gift. The profit can be calculated using other features on the system and then updated manually on the activity as required. (We don't think it is worth trying to do this automatically as it will normally be only a few activities and the rules could get complex.)

A new report which lists all transactions between specified dates where both the Contact (Member) and Activity qualify for GA. Report to show the Activity (including the year), Contact (Member), Date, Payment Type (cheque, cash), Receipt Number if issued, the gross amount of the transaction and the GA percentage if different. Gross and GA amounts to be totalled by Activity and over all activities.

It would be easy to provide a report similar to the above but listed by Contact (Member) rather than by activity.

There should be an Action (which can be put on a Role or withheld) which prevents users seeign Gift Aid on members or running the report.

These features should make it easy to complete the GA claim and provide backup to that claim if it were ever to be required.

THIS FEATURE IS RELEASED.