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DirectDevil

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Taxpayer makes a qualifying donation to charity registered with revenue.
Charity then applies for tax top-up of the donation.

Q. Can taxpayer ask Revenue to confirm top up has been paid to a specific charity or is that information consigned to the black hole of GDPR ?

The reason I ask is that I am going through some papers for a relative.
I have reason to suspect that the donation may have been diverted.
I do not want to approach the charity directly just yet.
If I can know that the intended charity has been "topped up" by Revenue that resolves the matter.
 
DirectDevil said:
I have reason to suspect that the donation may have been diverted.
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What do you mean by this?

It would be fraudulent of a charity to claim tax relief on foot of a donation it never received.

A charity's or any other entity's tax affairs are confidential between it and Revenue.
 
DirectDevil said:
The reason I ask is that I am going through some papers for a relative.
I have reason to suspect that the donation may have been diverted.
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So your relative made a donation to a charity.
You think that someone in the charity took the money for themselves?

The Revenue is irrelevant in this regard. In the unlikely event that Revenue shared that information with you, all you would know is that tax relief had not been claimed.

Did your relative make the donation by cheque? If so, ask the bank for a copy of the paid cheque and you will see where it was cashed.

Or ask the charity for a receipt for the donation "for your files".

Brendan
 
He paid by cheque. Will be following up a copy cheque from the bank.
AFAIK, because of GDPR, banks will only give you a copy of the front of the cheque !
 
T McGibney said:
What do you mean by this?

It would be fraudulent of a charity to claim tax relief on foot of a donation it never received.

A charity's or any other entity's tax affairs are confidential between it and Revenue.
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Agreed.

What I was curious to establish was if there had been no top up paid. If so, that would make me additionally suspicious that the charity had not received the top up. That was just me over-thinking it again !
 
Thanks for that practical advice Brendan.

It now turns out that the charity was just light years behind in terms of their paperwork so it looks alright.
Although many are staffed by part-time volunteers some of the bigger ones have, to my surprise, been very inefficient in doing their admin.
 
In the last year or so, Revenue have started to show donations claimed for a tax refund on SOL/tax returns.
For the charity to claim the tax refund, your relative should have given the charity a completed CHY3/4 form. Just because a charity has not claimed a tax refund does not mean the donation has been pocketed.
 
Towger said:
Revenue have started to show donations claimed for a tax refund on SOL/tax returns.
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Hi Towger

What is SOL?

Can I see the donations I made?
Or can I see the donations the charity received?

I presume it's the donations I made?

Brendan
 
Also charity can only get the grossed up amount when taxpayer has completed a tax return for the year in question, as far as I know.
 
Statement Of Liability. They are only for people on myAccount / Not registered for ROS.
 
This is my experience of a few charity’s in the last few years . The tax rebate
is often applied for long after the tax year is over . In fairness , they have to chase all donors for the chy2 form before they can apply to revenue for the rebate
 
There are delays from both Charites and Revenue. I just checked and the last record of a donation I made is in a
"NOTICE OF AMENDED ASSESSMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2020". It did not appear in the original!

 
Charities have 4 years to submit completed CHY3/4 forms to ROS. The one I volunteer with only submitted 2018 and 2019 last October. Revenue were speedy in processing it.
 
DirectDevil said:
It now turns out that the charity was just light years behind in terms of their paperwork so it looks alright.
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You'd be surprised at how many organisations that could claim such rebates don't know that they can or are remiss in doing so for various (non-nefarious) reasons.
 
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