# £2 million grants to charities from HMRC yielded £26 million in additional tax

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/01/23/2m-grants-charities-hmrc-yielded-26m-additional-tax/
- Published: 2013-01-23T10:35:28+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Grants of £2 million from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to voluntary and community
organisations to help people with taxes, benefits and tax credits have led to an
additional £26 million in additional tax being declared to last year. This represents
an increase of 55% on the previous year.

The organisations used the funding to train around 4,500 volunteers to answer people’s
questions on tax credits, benefits and tax issues. As a result, an additional 225,000
people each year will get help and advice on HMRC-related issues.

Exchequer Secretary David Gauke said: "I was very pleased at these results. They
show that the grants are a cost-effective way of ensuring that vulnerable people
on low incomes get the help they need with their tax affairs from an independent,
trusted source.”

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## Funding from HMRC?

HMRC's funding is directed at social enterprises, co-operatives and large and small
mutuals, as well as voluntary and community organisations. It has been operated 
a multi-year funding commitment since 2007-08.

The current funding programme runs from 2011-12 to 2014-15. In each year £2 million
of grant funding is made available to the voluntary and community sector each year.**
However, the funding for the current four-year period has now been allocated**. 
Seventeen projects by nine organisations are currently being supported.

4. HMRC has distributed £2 million across[ nine organisations in the VCS sector to undertake 17 projects](http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vcs/funded-orgs.pdf)
aimed at providing support to vulnerable customers.

www.hmrc.gov.uk/vcs/grant-funding-news.htm

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