Rebate Claim Process For Tsunami Donations
MEDIA RELEASE
14 January 2005
INLAND REVENUE OUTLINES REBATE CLAIM PROCESS FOR TSUNAMI DONATIONS
Inland Revenue today outlined the process around claiming a rebate for donations made to tsunami relief funds.
"Given the enormity of this tragedy and the number of New Zealanders making donations to tsunami relief funds, we want to make it as straightforward as possible for people to claim a rebate," says Acting Service Delivery Deputy Commissioner, Jim Scully.
Tsunami donations of $5 or more made to approved charities through third parties - such as banks, churches, supermarkets and other retail outlets will be eligible for a rebate, provided a receipt or proof of payment showing the donation is obtained, says Mr Scully.
Mr Scully added that contrary to some recent queries, no GST was deducted from any donation made to a charitable organisation.
Rebate claim forms for donations are completed annually each April. Detailed information on claiming a rebate for tsunami donations and a list of approved charities is provided on our website at, www.ird.govt.nz/promotion/tsunami.html .
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ORGANISATIONS
The following are approved organisations, many of whom are collecting donations for tsunami aid. When a person makes a donation to an organisation listed here, generally they can claim a rebate for that donation.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
African
Enterprise (New Zealand) Aid and Development Fund
Akha
Rescue Ministry Charitable Trust.
Alhay Buhay Foundation
Trust
Amnesty International
Bangladesh Flood Appeal
Trust
Books for Africa
Bright Hope International
Trust
Caritas Aotearoa - New Zealand
Channel 2
Cyclone Aid for Samoa
Cheboche Area Trust Inc
Christian Blind Mission International (New Zealand)
Christian Children's Fund of New Zealand Limited (CCFNZ)
Christian World Service
Community Action Overseas
(Oxfam NZ)
CORSO (Incorporated)
Cry for the World
Foundation New Zealand Humanitarian Aid Fund
Cyclone Ofa
Relief Fund
Cyclone Val Relief Fund
Four Sherpa
Trust
Greater Mekong Subregion Tertiary Education
Consortium Trust
Help a Child Foundation New Zealand
International Christian Aid (ICA)
Karunai Illam
Trust
Mission Without Borders (NZ), Humanitarian Aid
Account
Mobility Equipment for the Needs of Disabled
Trust
Nelson Mandela Trust (New Zealand)
New Zealand
Sports Foundation (Incorporated)
New Zealand Viet Nam
Health Trust
Open Home Foundation International Trust
Operation Hope (Aid Ship to Africa)
Plan New Zealand
"Raphael" (The Ryder-Cheshire Foundations of New
Zealand)
Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief New
Zealand
Sampoerna Foundation Limited
Save the
Children New Zealand (and its branches)
Sport and
Recreation New Zealand
St Stanislas Charitable Trust of
New Zealand.
Surf Aid International Incorporated
The
Commonwealth Foundation
The Evangelical Alliance Relief
Fund (TEAR Fund)
The Food Bank of New Zealand
The
Fred Hollows Foundation (NZ)
The Hillary Himalayan
Foundation
The Leprosy Mission New Zealand Incorporated
The New Zealand Rotary Clubs Charitable Trust
The
New Zealand Society for the Intellectually
Handicapped
(Incorporated)
The Norman Kirk Memorial
Trust Fund
The Pacific Leprosy Foundation
The Red
Cross Society Incorporated
The Serious Road Trip
Charitable Trust
The Sir Edmund Hillary Trust
The
Sir Walter Nash Vietnam Appeal
The United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF)
The
Volunteer Service Abroad (Incorporated)
The Winston
Churchill Memorial Trust
Together for Uganda
Water
for Survival
World Vision of New Zealand (Incorporated)
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