Property News · January 30, 2010

Gift aid – beware the hidden catch


Anything to encourage giving more must be a good thing, right? Not always, warns Rupert Jones – that bag you’ve taken to the charity shop could contain a nasty surpriseIf you have taken a bag of unwanted items to a charity shop recently, there is a good chance one of the volunteers will have tapped you on the shoulder and asked you to sign up to a gift aid scheme.A growing number of charity shops are inviting people to boost the value of their donated clothes, books and CDs simply by filling in a gift aid declaration­ form. This allows the charity­ to reclaim gift aid on the amount of money that your unwanted jumper or pair of shoes is sold for. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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