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2013-04-23 02:32
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research have funded and released a new CiviCRM extension to allow UK charities to claim Gift Aid from HMRC with a few clicks from within CiviCRM
HMRC, the UK government customs and tax department who operate the Gift Aid scheme, today opened their new methods for claiming back the basic rate of tax on donations that are eligible, the new scheme becomes compulsory in September.
The previous method for claiming Gift Aid was to send paper documents to HMRC. Under the new rules you can claim in three different ways, the new extension means that CiviCRM is ready for option two.
We also got some coverage in the UK charity trade press about it, most articles about the new Gift Aid system had been negative so we presented CiviCRM as a solution and extolled the benefits of charities working together on open source software. CiviCRM was also the first CRM database to announce it'd be ready, beating all propietry CRM databases. It was also tweeted about a lot over the week.
We've since been contacted by orgs who are in the process of implementing CRM systems asking about CiviCRM, plus it should now be on the radar of more people who'll implement systems in the future.
The work was carried out by Veda Consulting and builds on the work of the previous Gift Aid extension.
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Thanks for sharing this Owen, and for getting the word out so publically about this. Great exposure for CiviCRM :)
This will be a very welcome addition! Thank you for sharing