Gift Aid Tax Reclaim

• Name - Enter a name for the content item. This text appears during design mode (configuration).
• HMRC Reference - Specifies your organization's unique HMRC Reference number.
• Transactions per Batch - Specifies the number of transactions to be included in each batch as the claim is generated. The claim is built in batches to avoid placing an unnecessary load on the server when generating a claim for a large database. Reduce this value if you encounter performance problems.
  Note: The number of transactions per batch does not limit the number of transactions that can appear in a claim.
  Note: If you generate a claim for a large number of transactions, you may want to adjust the Transactions per Batch and TimeOut settings to fine tune the performance of the claim generation. A larger value for Transactions per Batch may speed up the process but potentially at the expense of reducing performance for other users. If you increase the Transactions per Batch, you may need to also increase the TimeOut value to allow the large batches to complete.
• Time-out - Specifies the time limit in seconds for generating a new tax claim. If you have timeout issues when processing claims with large amounts of data, then increase this value and / or reduce the Transactions per Batch.
• Field name - Specifies items to be included or excluded from Gift Aid claims. You can select items that are associated with:
  • Appeal Types - Lists your iMIS Appeal Codes. We recommend that you exclude any appeal codes that are associated with donations where the donor has received some type of benefit from the gift. For example, if an event was held and the supporter made a donation at the event, the UK tax authorities may rule that the supporter had received a benefit (i.e. by attending the event) and hence the tax could not be recovered. In these circumstances, an appeal code created for the event should be associated with the donations received at the event. You could then exclude donations associated with that appeal code, so that they do not appear in a claim.
  • Cash Accounts - Lists your iMIS Cash Accounts. Certain types of payment, such as CAF vouchers and CAF Account payments, must be excluded from a tax reclaim as they are already tax efficient - i.e. the tax reclaim is managed by the organisation (e.g. CAF) that issues the voucher. If you accept donations via such payment methods, you must create cash account codes for them and exclude these cash account codes from your reclaim to prevent the tax being reclaimed twice.
  • Categories - Lists any custom billing Categories you have set up in iMIS. Billing Categories only appear in the list if you have enabled the Use Bill Categories option in iMIS and created categories.
  • Customer Types - Lists your iMIS Customer Types. Excluded customer types do not appear in tax reclaims. For example, you should exclude customer types that relate to non-individual contacts, such as companies or charitable trusts. Gift Aid can only be claimed against donations from individual supporters.

Notes

• None.