# Gift Ease offers free tools to calculate retrospective Gift Aid

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/08/gift-ease-offers-free-tools-calculate-retrospective-gift-aid/
- Published: 2009-06-08T12:19:14+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/Giftease_1244463539.gif)

Gift Aid management service Gift Ease is offering two free online tools for charities
to help them calculate how much they could lose if they don’t act in time before
the retrospective tax claim period drops from six to four years starting next year.

The Gift Aid calculator asks for the total amount of individuals’ donations received
for the financial period, an estimate of what proportion has already been claimed
in terms of Gift Aid, and it then calculates the potential Gift Aid that the charity
could still reclaim.

The figures should make for compelling reading, not least given the fact that the
reclaim period is about to be reduced by two years, starting in 2010.

## Advertisement

 [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/)

Gift Ease’s RQP (or Retrospective Qualifying Period) Calculator lets charities calculate
how much time they have to try and reclaim retrospective tax. To use it you need
to have registered on Gift Ease’s site, although there is no charge to do so.

The calculator makes it clear that you need to define whether your organisation 
is registered for tax as a trust or company as the results will be different.

Of course, these calculators are intended for guidance only. Gift Ease offer a more
detailed healthcheck and other Gift Aid services.

Nevertheless, they should help charities get a good overview of the amount of Gift
Aid that they should be claiming before the reclaim period reduction takes effect.

www.gift-ease.net

 * **[Barry Gower offers expanded training course on Gift Aid](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/10/barry-gower-offers-expanded-training-course-gift-aid/)**(
   10 June 2009)
 * **[Call to Government to Reform Gift Aid for Higher Rate Taxpayers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/08/17/call-government-reform-gift-aid-higher-rate-taxpayers/)**(
   17 August 2009)
 * **[Institute lobbies for higher rate taxpayer Gift Aid reform](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/08/18/institute-lobbies-higher-rate-taxpayer-gift-aid-reform/)**(
   18 August 2009)