Need help selling ticket online please! Urgent

royfoord

Hi Guys,

I am looking for some assistance please.
My mother is organising an event that requires the selling of tickets.

The tickets will be sold from a website I am setting up for her.
The problem we have is that we require the money to be paid to us so we can obtain the names and details from the buyers, once the money has been collected it is then being donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.

The problem we are having is we were considering selling the tickets online with the use of PayPal and then once the tickets have all been sold we were intending on making a paypal payment to my mothers JustGiving page which will then add onto my mothers total funds raised and they take care of sending the funds to macmillan.

The worries we are having is will my mum get pulled up for tax on the ticket sale?
If so is there a way around it?

Also we are looking perhaps for an alternative to PayPal without the fees since it is intended for charity.
Is there a better solution that some one could please suggest?

This is quite urgent as we need to start selling the tickets immediately.

Thank you for your help!


Roy Foord

royfoord

links to the site:

event & selling tickets - filmaid co uk

justgiving page - justgiving co uk / lynnehadley1

bigpound

If you use eBay, I don't think they charge a fee for charity sales.

fengirl_2

If all the profits of the event are going to the charity, then she needs to keep full records of all the income and expenditure for the event to show to HMRC should they query the situation. If not all the profits are going to the charity, then your mother is trading and HMRC would seek to tax the whole profit on the grounds that it's up to the individul how s/he spends their money. This applies whether or not you are using Paypal.

royfoord

Yes for sure all profits are going to Macmillan, we are trying to cover all angle before we start selling them.
We would be keeping record of all the transactions anyhow.

Thanks to bigpound for your suggestion but we feel ebay will restrict the sale of tickets to many people, although we are aware of teh link between ebay & paypal.

Savvy_Sue

I'm a little unclear: is ALL the money from the tickets going to the charity? If so, then you can 'sell' them from an Event page on JustGiving page, AFAIK, although your buyers can't then Gift Aid the cost of the ticket, and you may lose something with the admin fee.

Or is the PROFIT from the event going to the charity? If it's that one, then there is no simple way round it.

Have you asked MacMillan for advice on this one? They should be told about the event in any case, and may have some advice from those who've done it before.