Mark Carroll's Journal

The law's fairly open about the character of the Gift Aid declaration, it basically has to include certain elements, but HMRC offer a couple of useful templates, one for recurring, one for one-off. The latter just references the current tax year, which is fine by me and must be akin to what I've typically been given by other organizations as I'd have otherwise run into this long before. So, yes, you're right to raise that issue, and I certainly agree that the declaration needs to handle it.

Admittedly, I'm easily sitting pretty enough that I can expect to be paying tax, I just don't want to have to remember this declaration form five years from now if things are much worse for me then, which is what the one insisted on by HEC encumbers me with needlessly.