Edinburgh Marathon

[chrestomancy]

In case you haven't seen me in the last 6 months, or have managed to filter out everything I've said on what is now my only topic of conversation, I'm running the Edinburgh Marathon on the 22nd May.

Comments

[condign]

Done. But wow, that website doesn't make it easy to donate!

[chrestomancy]

No. It's the best out there, but the best is still pretty rubbish.

[condign]

It was just the Gift Fund bit that threw me. On the one hand, I'm not eligible (for obvious reasons), but on the other hand it seemed to give me the options of saying, "Sign me up" and "I'm a greedy bastard who doesn't want my tax money to go to help my friend." Which was odd: I just wanted an option that said, "Sorry, you'd have to pry it out of the cold, grasping clutches of the IRS, and you'd rather take on a band of rabid zombies."

Eventually the system got it right, but I was worried I was going to commit UK tax fraud accidentally.

[onebyone]

I'm genuinely (slightly) worried I'm committing tax fraud when I use Gift Aid, since the declaration usually says "I have paid income tax", whereas the actual situation is that I *will* pay income tax, when I finally do my tax return for last year.

I guess the people who write these things are UK taxpayers on PAYE, and find it hard to imagine that anyone might not be.

[onebyone]

And on this occasion the declaration was more useful (and I think relevant to the law), "I pay an amount of tax each year sufficient to cover this"). For me, at least, I was first told how excellent Gift Aid is and had to select one of "I am giving my own money", "this is money I have collected (Gift Aid not applicable", "this is money given on behalf of a company (Gift Aid not applicable)". So if you're not used to the drill, then initially it looks as though you might have to lie in order for them not to take Gift Aid, but then actually the "my own money" option gives you an option on the next page whether it applies or not