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Keep it legal: The Scottish charity test
By Alan Eccles, Third Sector, 30 April 2008
The key to charitable status in Scotland used to be recognition by the Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue & Customs). Accordingly, most constitutional documents set out charitable purposes by reference to tax law.
But in April 2006, practice for new Scottish charities changed with the inception of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Reference to the purposes contained in the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 became the litmus test of whether a body has a right to call itself a...
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