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BEQUESTS
A bequest is a provision in your will that names the recipient or partial recipients of your estate. In making a bequest to Animal Liberation Victoria you can specify an amount of money or a percentage of your estate, the remainder of your estate, or other items of personal property such as shares. Your bequest can be directed to a particular area of work, eg. to fund the Campaign against the Live Export Trade, Battery Farms, etc. Whatever the size of your bequest, it is a simple way to make the contribution of a lifetime. For more information about making a bequest to ALV please see our bequest information factsheet (PDF). Please let us know if you have included ALV in your will so that we can ensure your wishes are fulfilled.
HELP US CONVINCE THE GOVERNMENT TO GRANT ANIMAL PROTECTION GROUPS TAX DEDUCTIBILITY FOR DONATIONS
At present, the government all but ignores the validity of not for profit animal protection organisations and refuses to grant our supporters tax deductibility for donations.
The government takes in hundreds of millions of tax dollars from Australian animal lovers (the Australian pet industry is estimated to be worth 3.3 billion and employ 37,000 people directly and indirectly), yet those with big enough hearts to fork our from their already heavily taxed incomes, to reduce the problems that the government should have a moral and social obligation to support, are denied tax deductibility on their donations. If the government will not give significant assistance to animal protection organizations, surely the least they can do is grant Tax Deductibility for donations made to these organizations
Animal rights groups are specifically excluded by the tax department from receiving tax deductible gift recipient status. RSPCA Australia and each of its branches in Australia were given special status under the taxation laws in 1982 (see Hansard 5/2/1982) and they enjoy tax-deductibility for donations, but numerous other animal rights and welfare groups who have applied, have not been granted similar status.
Morally, tax deductible donations to non-profit animal rights organisations should be available to the public, and the controls applied to those organizations should be similar, if not identical, to human rights organisations that are granted tax deductibility status. Please write/e-mail/fax the Minister responsible for deductible gift recipient legislation, Treasurer Wayne Swan, to complain about this situation and request that animal rights organisations be granted the same deductible gift recipient entitlements as human rights organisations.
The Hon Wayne Swan MP
Treasurer
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
E-mail: http://www.treasury.gov.au/ministerial.asp
Fax: (02) 6273 2614
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