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This is the name for the new forms which replace covenants. The
Declaration is a one-off, once-for-all request for tax to be reclaimed on
your donation, large or small, regular or one-off. GADs don't run for any
specified number of years, and there is no need for any specific sum to be
entered. They do not need to be witnessed.
All that is required is that (a) you are a tax-payer and (b) that
anything which you give can be identified to you; this means using a weekly
envelope or making a donation by cheque or banker's order. It is quite
confidential but necessary so that the Inland Revenue can cross-refer to
your tax records.
What a Gift Aid Declaration can cover
To benefit the Parish in Sawston, any Sunday first collection money,
Easter and Christmas offerings to the Priest, and offerings for a special
mass, providing it is in an envelope with your number on it. If you want to
benefit, for example, Priests' Education, or Cafod or similar charities,
these would need a separate Gift Aid Declaration for each.
The spouse and minor children of a donor are now allowed to include
anything they give in the donor's envelope, because it is treated as coming
from the tax-paying donor.
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To summarise...
Making a Gift Aid Declaration is done once only; no amount of money is
mentioned in it and the declaration is not witnessed. Once the Declaration
is made, just £1.00 given once only would bring back the tax paid on
that pound! What could be easier?
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