Frequently asked questions - Your donation and tax back

If you are a PAYE-only tax payer and have given €250 or more to Concern in the course of a tax year, Concern can reclaim the tax paid on your donations.

This only applies to personal donations you have made and not to money raised through sponsorship. Claiming this tax back for Concern applies to one-off donations or instalments such as monthly donations.

If you are self-assessed, or a corporation, you can also reclaim the tax paid on your donations. You will need a copy of your donation history to attach to your assessment form. You can get your donation history from Concern's team at concerntaxappealconcern.net.

Concern can reclaim an extra 25% of the value of your donations if you are a standard rate tax payer of 21%. For example, if you have given €250 over the course of a year, this will be worth an extra €63 to Concern.

Use our tax calculator to work out how much your donation is worth to Concern when the claimed tax is included.

Yes. Your details are confidential to Concern and the Revenue Commissioners. The information will not be used for anything other than the tax claim.

Once a year, Concern automatically mails a tax relief form to all individual Concern donors that qualify for a tax reclaim.

Simply complete the form and return it to Concern's Freepost address: Concern, Camden Street, Freepost F 1906, Dublin 2.

You can also download the form here.

You only need to fill out one form for each year that you donated more than €250. We can claim tax back for the past four years – so if you donated more than €250 in 2006 we can still claim the tax on it!

This scheme is for PAYE-only tax payers. If your income is self-assessed or partly self-assessed we cannot claim tax on your donation. You can claim your own relief from the revenue. Please contact us at concerntaxappealconcern.net if you require a list of your donations for the year.

If you are a company, treat your charity donations as a normal business expense, deductible at the appropriate rate of corporation tax. If you need Concern to resend a donation receipt, please contact us at concerntaxappealconcern.net.

This number is given to you by the Revenue Commissioners. You will find it quoted on any form or correspondence sent to you by them. You can also find it on your payslips.

If you are taxed as a married couple, either party can sign the form using either person’s PPS number.

Pensioners may pay some PAYE tax on their pension. Concern can claim on this amount.

It doesn’t matter if you have given to other charities as well. We only reclaim tax on the donations made to Concern.

Contact concerntaxappealconcern.net for more information.