# Record amounts of Gift Aid claimed

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/30/record-amounts-gift-aid-claimed/
- Published: 2010-06-30T10:45:45+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

HMRC reports that record amounts of Gift Aid were claimed by charities in 2009-2010.
With claims of £1.007m, this was the first time that charities have claimed more
than £1 billion in Gift Aid. The figure is, however, provisional at this stage.

In 2008-09 the figure was £946,000, and in 2007-08 it was £898,000.

John Low, Charities Aid Foundation Chief Executive welcomed the announcement, saying:“
It is great to see record amounts of Gift Aid claimed in a year when our research
shows that overall giving has fallen, but this is no reason for complacency – we
know that many hundreds of millions of potential Gift Aid still remains to be harnessed
for the work of charities.

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“With the support of the new Government, perhaps it will now be possible to drive
through a radical simplification of Gift Aid processing to maximise the tax recovered
on charitable donations.”

HMRC’s annual Gift Aid statistics can be found at

www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/charities/table10-3.pdf

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