Analysis: Why the CFDG has taken up the case for relaxing the trading rules

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 20 February 2008

The Charity Finance Directors' Group budget submission to the Treasury, published last week, reignites an old controversy about charity trading rules.

The existing regulations compel charities to set up separate trading companies if the volume of trading they carry out unrelated to their cause exceeds £50,000, or 25 per cent of turnover. But the CFDG says they are "complex, inconsistent, difficult for charities to get right and resource-intensive", and wants them...

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