XFool wrote:DrBunsenHoneydew wrote:For Gift Aid to be claimed on admissions, one of the following two conditions must be met:
1) The museum can request a voluntary donation worth 10% or more than the normal admission price. This must be clearly identified to the visitor as a voluntary donation and signs should show both amounts. So a general ticket could be £10, but a gift-aid ticket must be a minimum of £11, which is worth £13.75 to the charity after the tax claim.
Or
2) A donation is made in return for the right of admission to the property for a 12 month period at all times when the property is open to the public, excluding five days per year permitted for special events. This can mean either unlimited free entry or reduced price entry for all visits during the 12 month period. In the latter case, only the fee paid on the first visit qualifies for Gift Aid.
Neither was the case with my ticket. It was a single entry Adult 60+ ticket of £6 inclusive of 90p VAT (I can't even make that work...) to an exhibition in the Natural History Museum. Referred to on the ticket as a "Jerwood Event (A)"
Gift Aid is shown as added at 0.00 giving a total payment of £6.00 + £0.00 = £6.00
The second (bottom) half of the ticket shows:
Jerwood Event (A), Grp(?) A, Qty 1, £15.1x - this is now indistinct.
Gift Aid Grp(?) A, Qty 1, £10
XFool's name (incorrect)
XFool's address (correct)
"Thank you for your Gift Aid donation received today. Your donation will support our valuable work. Gift Aid donors must pay an amount of income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax equal to...etc"
Wording not entirely clear now. Mainly because even originally the text overran the sides of the ticket.
I suspect it's an incorrectly printed ticket - the fact it has a different name on is a clue, they have mixed you up with someone else and you did not make a £10 Gift Aid donation.
Forget about it.
And forget the £1 you owe HMRC!
Mel