# Call for end to not-for-profit tax confusion

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/06/call-end-notforprofit-tax-confusion/
- Published: 2005-09-06T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**VAT experts at accountants UHY Hacker Young are calling for an overhaul of the‘
outdated’ and ‘unfair’ test system used to determine whether not-for profit organisations
are entitled to tax reliefs.**

Not-for-profit educational, sporting and cultural organisations have to take a special
test to qualify for the relief. However, the test for each type of body is different.

Simon Newark, not-for-profit expert at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said: “Having
different rules for each type of organisation is ridiculous. The rules are frequently
updated but it would make it a lot easier for all charities if there were clear,
uniform rules for everyone.

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“EU law gives member states the opportunity to choose from a list of conditions 
to qualify for tax relief. Rather than choosing one definition of ‘not-for profit’
and giving all organisations the same
qualifying test, the UK has made it much more
complicated by choosingdifferent conditions for each type of organisation.”

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