What we do

Where you wish to use TaxGift's services, or engage with a charity that uses TaxGift's services, then we will collect personal information from you, including your name, contact information and IRD number.  We will either collect this directly from you, or where you have given permission for us to act as your agent, we will collect it from the charity to whom you have donated.

We collect this personal information in order to be able to offer our services to you and/or the charities to which you donate. Besides our staff, we share this information with the charity to whom you donated, third parties that assist us with the services that we provide, and Inland Revenue, all in order be able to receive donation certificates and to process the tax credit on your behalf.

Providing some information is optional. However, if you choose not to provide any of the personal information that is requested, we are unlikely to be able to process your tax credit on your behalf and increase your donation to your charity/ies.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information or to have it corrected, please contact us at hannah@taxgift.co.nz or call us on 021 1846450.

TaxGift Donor Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions govern each Authorisation given by you. If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions, please email admin@taxgift.co.nz to terminate your Authorisation.

1.  Definitions 

1.1.  The following capitalised terms shall have the meanings given to them below, unless the context otherwise requires:

Authorisation means the TaxGift authorisation form completed by a donor that grants TaxGift authority to act on that donor’s behalf solely to file a return to Inland Revenue in respect of available Rebates on each Donation to charities to which TaxGift provides the Service.

Charity means a charity in respect of which you have completed an Authorisation.

Donation means a gift of money of at least $5 where there is no linked benefit to the donor or the donor’s family.

Inland Revenue means the public service department charged with collecting revenue (including taxes) on behalf of the New Zealand Government.

Rebate means monies received as a tax credit, claimable from Inland Revenue, for Donations.

Service means the service offered by TaxGift to Charities that allows Charities to maximise the amount of Donations through using Inland Revenue’s process for providing tax credits on Donations.

TaxGift, we, TaxGift, our means TaxGift Limited, a New Zealand company with New Zealand Business Number 9429047455160.

you means the donor who has granted the Authorisation.

1.2.  In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular include the plural, and vice versa.

2.  Term and termination

2.1.  The Authorisation starts on:

(a)  the date that you sign the Authorisation; or 

(b)  the date you provide TaxGift with your IRD number,

(whichever is later) and will, subject to applicable law, continue until either:

(c)  the date that you notify TaxGift in writing at admin@taxgift.co.nz that you rescind your Authorisation (which you may do at any time and for any reason); or 

(d)  the date upon which TaxGift ceases:

(i)  its business;

(ii)  to provide a donation rebate facility for charities; or 

(iii)  to provide the services that are the subject of the Authorisation. 

2.2.  You acknowledge that each Authorisation that you sign constitutes a separate Authorisation in respect of the Donations that you make to a single Charity and termination of one Authorisation does not mean termination of all Authorisations that you have executed. 

2.3.  You acknowledge and agree that while TaxGift will cease to submit Rebates from the date of notification by you under this clause 2, any Rebates that have already been submitted to Inland Revenue will continue to be processed in accordance with these terms and conditions.

3.  Trust account

All monies received as a tax credit from Inland Revenue as a result of your Authorisation will be held in a trust account for the benefit of the Charity to which you made the Donation and, subject to clause 5.1, such monies will be paid to that Charity as an additional Donation.

4.  Warranty

You warrant that you are a New Zealand tax resident, that you are an individual (and not a partnership, trust or company) and that you have earned taxable income in each year that is more than the amount that you have donated to the Charity.

5.  Remuneration

5.1.  You acknowledge that TaxGift will be remunerated by the Charities. TaxGift’s remuneration will consist of a percentage of the Rebate that TaxGift procures for the Charity from offering the Charity the Service. The original amount of your Donation will be received in full directly by the Charity to which you donated.

5.2.  TaxGift may also receive incidental interest from the trust account in which TaxGift holds the amounts received from Rebates on trust for Charities. This interest will be used for operating and enhancing the services that TaxGift provides.

6.  Identification

Where required by law, TaxGift may require you to undertake a process for verifying your identity. Should this be required, TaxGift will contact you with the information necessary to complete this process (which will only be to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law). 

7.  Privacy

You acknowledge and agree that all personal information that you submit via the Authorisation will be used, held, stored and disclosed in accordance with the TaxGift Privacy Statement, which is available at www.taxgift.co.nz.

8.  General

8.1.  These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of New Zealand and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts. 

8.2.  TaxGift may change these terms and conditions by posting updated terms and conditions to the website, such amendments to be effective no less than 45 days after being posted. If you do not accept any such changes, then subject to clause 2.2, you may terminate your Authorisation immediately by notifying TaxGift of this termination at admin@taxgift.co.nz. 

If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid then to the extent that such provision is invalid, it shall be deemed to be severed from these terms and conditions, the remainder of which shall continue in full force and effect.