If you are a taxpayer and decide to use Gift Aid for your donations to the Church, the Church will be able to reclaim tax on that donation.

If you are a higher rate taxpayer, you can claim personal relief on these donations.

Completing a Gift Aid Declaration does not commit you to making any specific donations.  It just gives us the authority to reclaim the tax you have already paid.
 

How Gift Aid works

Gift Aid donations are treated as having had basic rate tax deducted – which the Church can reclaim. So for every £10 you give, the Church will receive another £2.80 from the Government.

However, to let the Church claim this you have to

• be a taxpayer. You must have paid enough income tax or capital gains tax or both in that year to cover what the Church claims on your donations
   
• give the Church a declaration which allows us to reclaim the tax.

Higher rate taxpayers

If you pay higher rate tax, you can personally claim relief based on the difference between the basic and higher rates.

Non-taxpayers

A non-taxpaying spouse cannot make a Gift Aid Declaration on the strength of tax paid by the partner. In such a case, the taxpayer should make the Gift Aid Declaration in his/her own name, and make payments out of his/her taxed income. A non-taxpayer must not make a Gift Aid Declaration as it cannot be use to reclaim tax.  Joint Declarations are not acceptable.

If you want to donate, but are a non-taxpayer who has a taxpaying spouse, it is all very easy.  The taxpayer need do nothing except complete one Gift Aid Declaration which lasts a lifetime.  You can do the rest, Sunday by Sunday, however, or whenever, you want to donate. If you have any queries, just contact one of the Organisers listed below and they will advise you.

How are payments made

The Parish must record all amounts received under Gift Aid, so donors must make their contributions in numbered envelopes, or by cheque or bankers standing order.

What should I do if I want to Gift Aid my donations to the Church?

You actually have to do very little – our Gift Aid Organisers do the hard work - just contact one of our Organisers and they will advise you:

Peter Burholt  Tel: 01444 412824, Email: burholt10@tiscali.co.uk

David Goodge Tel: 01444 456546, Email: david.goodge1@btopenworld.com

If you think you have sufficient information to proceed, a Gift Aid Form can be printed off directly from the Diocesan website (www.dabnet.org). The link below will take you directly to the relevant document. Please print page 30. Also please note that, for tax-validation purposes, the form should be filled in by hand ( manuscript ). Please send the completed form to:

P. Burholt
10 Wood Ride
Haywards Heath
West Sussex
RH16 4NJ

Click HERE to go to Gift Aid Form

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* The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No. 252878 and includes the Parish of St Paul, Haywards Heath