No tax on text donations, says minister

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 7 March 2008

VAT should not be charged on donations to charity made by mobile phone text message, the Government has announced.

Jane Kennedy, financial secretary to the Treasury, said that, like all other types of charitable giving, text donations were not liable for VAT. Many mobile phone networks have up to now charged VAT on a whole donation. The confirmation came in a written answer to a question raised by Liberal...

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