Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I'm not aware of any church that has a membership fee, and I'd be amazed to learn of one. In the case of tithing (which is expected in only a very small minority of churches) I imagine it would be cast as a donation, and not as membership. Our common law holds a membership fee to be contract

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Edward Bainton
I'm also a charity treasurer in the UK (tho I think officially I'm called the secretary...). I'm on this list because I'd love to be able to use GC for the charity finances, but the Gift Aid thing is a significant hurdle to clear. First, the church collections: it sounds as if you could possibly s

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Edward Bainton
Yes, almost any donation to any charity (or community amateur sports club) is eligible, and it would be unheard of for a church not to qualify as a charity. (Perhaps not so unheard of for them not to register as such with the tax authorities, as it's a lot of faff - as this thread makes clear.) I'

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread 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. You can claim on donations that are eligible for Gift Aid, but not me

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Edward Bainton
> Your GASDS claim cannot be more than 10 times your Gift Aid claim. Ah yes, good catch: I hadn't reckoned with more than a small proportion of donations coming across the plate. > The club pays the venue a fixed price per diner and this figure is rounded up in the charge collected at the door fr

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/29/2020 8:36 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: When I took over as Treasurer I inherited a set of spreadsheets for the accounts from my predecessor, including a separate one for Gift Aid. I’m not keen on spreadsheets for bookkeeping, and set up a parallel set of books in GnuCash. At first I th

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Oct 2020, at 14:29, Edward Bainton wrote: > > I'm also a charity treasurer in the UK (tho I think officially I'm called the > secretary...). I'm on this list because I'd love to be able to use GC for the > charity finances, but the Gift Aid thing is a significant hurdle to clear. > >

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 02:29:17PM +, Edward Bainton wrote: >I'm also a charity treasurer in the UK (tho I think officially I'm >called the secretary...). I'm on this list because I'd love to be able >to use GC for the charity finances, but the Gift Aid thing is a >significant h

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Oct 2020, at 11:37, Chris Green wrote: > >> > It's not that easy! > > For us it's mostly collections in church that are affected (at least > they're the ones that I'm dealing with), each member of the > congregation who wants ( and can) get their donation gift aided `puts > their coll

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:26:08AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 10/29/2020 5:18 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I am treasurer for a small PCC in the UK. > > > > I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. > > > > How do you handle Gift-Aid in your accounts, or do you

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/29/2020 5:18 AM, Chris Green wrote: I am treasurer for a small PCC in the UK. I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. How do you handle Gift-Aid in your accounts, or do you not bother at all and simply record the datail of Gift-Aid donations separately for making th

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Peter West
Thank you Chris. Apostrophe pollution is uncontrolled. Where are the Apostrophe Police? > On 29 Oct 2020, at 7:25 pm, Chris Green wrote: > >> >> I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. >> > Oops, the grocer's apostophe has appeared! > > I know there are other similar c

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
> > I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. > Oops, the grocer's apostophe has appeared! I know there are other similar charity treasurers hereabouts. :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org T

[GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
I am treasurer for a small PCC in the UK. I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. How do you handle Gift-Aid in your accounts, or do you not bother at all and simply record the datail of Gift-Aid donations separately for making the on-line claim? It seems a pity to have to