When is a ‘donation’ or gift tax deductible?

I want to provide some money for the care and welfare of a person living overseas (UK). The person is not related to me, but was in a long term (de facto) relationship of a distant relative of mine who recently passed away, and to whom I was close.

Wanted to check. Are payments such as this a ‘donation’ and hence tax deductible? I didn’t think so.

 

Do they have "registered charity" status in Australia?

 

Wouldn’t think so. Person is close to being homeless. Can I register a charity? Just trying to maximise the help I can provide.

 

They need to be a registered deductible gift recipient.
Complex to set up, and I don't think it would work for one beneficiary.

 

IIRC a charity only needs to distribute something like 30% to it's purposes (the rest can be blown on wages etc). A few years ago I thin that it was Warney who apparently underspent on the charitable side of thingsso copped a bit of flack from a regulator (the cost of putting on those big functions was quite high but he didn't recoup it in donations etc).

 

He is the reason I don't generally donate to organised charities

 

His was 'dis'-organised was it not

 

Boozing up on public donations lol Yeah Yeah

Wonder if Mo was on the board?

 

Getting deductible gift recipient (DGR) status is a major pain in the ass and can take years. A friend of mine recently went through it for a Foundation she established - which had prominent former politicians and jurists (including former High Court members) as board members - and it still took the best part of a decade to get DGR.

 

Become a church. Its easier.

 

How to setup a church?

 

Tell them you're an altar boy