Thank you to all who support our parish financially. We provide this online secure facility for your convenience. You can choose to make a once-off donation, or a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual contribution.
Tax Rebate Charges for Charities
Midleton parish forms part of the Parishes and Schools in the Diocese of Cloyne registered charity, and as such operates the Charitable Donations Tax Rebate Scheme. This is a way of increasing the value of your donation without increasing the amount.
Put simply, the system means that if any taxpayer gives €250 or more in a given year, the parish can get back some of the tax you have paid in that year from the revenue. In round figures, we can claim back 45% of what you donate. So if you give €250 a year, we can get back €112 from revenue, which means that the €250 is now worth €362 to the parish. An annual amount of €350 would give us a rebate of €157.5 and a total of €507.5, and so on. The bigger the amount donated, the more the parish can claim back.
Two important points to note are:
- It will not increase the amount of tax you have to pay to revenue. The rebate comes from tax you have already paid anyway.
- You cannot claim the tax back for yourself. It can only be claimed by a registered charity, which applies to the parish.
In order to claim the tax back, the parish must have a record of your donation. If it totals €250 or more in one year, and you pay income tax, then you qualify for this scheme which helps the parish at no extra cost to yourself. For further information contact accounts@midletonparish.ie