[GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> What you can claim
> Your GASDS claim cannot be more than 10 times your Gift Aid claim. For example, you can claim on £1,000 worth of donations through GASDS if you’ve received £100 of Gift Aid donations in the same tax year.
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> You can claim on donations that are eligible for Gift Aid, but not membership fees.
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Just curious about that, whether it applies to "churches".

In other words, I do understand what that exclusion is all about 
(because of your "sports clubs", etc. but wonder whether it also applies 
to those religions that traditionally/customarily have "membership" 
dues/fees.

We have a similar rule here BUT for the reason that we don't have an 
established/favored religion and that is enshrined in the Constitution 
that rule does NOT apply to religious organizations. The IRS wording 
"but not if that membership only involves non-material/spiritual benefits"

The curiosity mainly because many of the UK groups asking are churches.

Michael D Novack