Retail Gift Aid

If you are a HR taxpayer and regularly give items to charity, you can claim HR rate tax relief on the sale value of those items.

To be legal and acceptable by HMRC,you remain the owner of the goods until sold and agree to give the proceeds of sales to the charity at the point of sale, and the charity informs you of your donation.

Not all charities are doing this yet, if any one here runs a charity and wants info please pm me. I am helping a couple of charities set this up. One large charity is using an online system and enrolling all donors but having resistance to sign-up , others are administering it manually using standard letters / statements to each donor which is a lot of work and not very scaleable.

Please give as much as possible to charities this Christmas, and buy less next year, even un-sellable clothes and rags have value to the "rag men" that buy in bulk from charities.