Church groups divided over proposals for Gift Aid

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 7 November 2007

Churches in two dioceses are dissenting from a new proposal for calculating Gift Aid that was supported by the Church of England.

The proposal, which would involve charities negotiating flat Gift Aid reclaim rates based on the proportion of their donors who are taxpayers, was submitted to the Treasury's Gift Aid review in September by a coalition of charity umbrella bodies that included the National Church Institutions ( Third Sector Online ,...

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