Henry here. I'm back!
It's my first blog on blogger, which we're using because it's totally interactive and you, the reader, can post comments on our entries. If I'm entirely honest, my previous blogs on everything from writing our monthly ezine to Save the Rhino's current VAT situation haven't met with a fantastic response from you, the audience. Even that piece on charities reclaiming tax from a couple of months ago, which I thought was a barmstormer, resulted in very few emails to my inbox. I'd like that to change please, starting today.
As well as being here to entertain the general public with stories of working behind the scenes of a small charity, I want to speak to others in the charity sector. I don't think we share information enough, and we could make things easier by asking each other for advice. For example, I've just started claiming Gift Aid on membership payments, and it's taken me months of wrangling with HMRC to sort it out. I'm sure it doesn't have to be that hard - and I'm sure there are hundreds of us out there who have had to do the same thing from scratch.
So let's get talking, charities. And you too, non-charity people. Let's use this interactivity to start something cool.
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Hi Henry
I do VAT AND PAYE (although I know you're spared PAYE). If you get the VAT it's not toooo bad. Depending on which kind they stick you on one is shed loads of admin, the other not so. (Flat rate - zilch - or standard input/ouput - lots.) The VAT teams are genuinely helpful/pleasant to deal with.
Speak to me re VAT and charities - I have a couple of ex-KPMG accounting friends/relatives (Dad) who will know this field well. I expect they'll look kindly on you.
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