How do some people manage to squeeze so much stupid into such a small brain.

Of course they will deduct the money, the same as if they pay to HUKD for referring users to their website. Not sure what you're trying to say. :confused:

As far as i was aware they dont pay tax anyway so the state isnt going to lose much.
In fact the charities will probably take more from this than the govt will in tax.

It has to be HMRC. NHS is going to get all the savings from EU contributions pretty soon, LOL (remember the bus?) :smile:

Macmillan's 2014 report shows one person on £180-190K, and 7 others on £100-130K. So yes, they have employees earning 6 figures. £1.1m was spent on governance, and £68m on generating (£215m) income. It really depends upon whether Amazon shoppers think that is an efficient use of money from a charitable point of view, or whether that money would be better going to Amazon.

It is a minimum of 5% and can be up to 15% for high margin goods - I've been using the shop.macmillan.org.uk link for about 7 years now - I have it saved in my browser favorites so I never forget to click through.

Given the Amazon tax situation it is the only reason I feel ok about buying so much from amazon! Which I love BTW.

Or you could just use Flubit and save even more money

Rather have 5% off than giving it to those thieving charities. Only 12% of every pound goes to the end user. So 0.7% of the 5% will end up helping those poor donkeys.

Why can't Amazon just make everything 5% cheaper for us the consumer? I.e. In Quidco

Times are hard

I'd rather to choose RNL than leave it with Amazon, TBH.

Does this apply to purchases of Amazon gift vouchers does anyone know? I regularly buy £000s worth for work so would be interested to know.

I do mine through easy fundraising to give it to my chosen charity which isn't on the above list

Survivors Manchester? Has Neegan and his crew made it to Manchester? :confused::confused:

Riiiick!!!

With 63 orders in the past 6 months. I think i'll start using it to donate to RNLI

So they can deduct it from their £0 tax bill? HMRC will be paying scAmazon soon.

Shop elsewhere, it's cheaper and give what you saved to charity, if you need to feel better about yourself.

What they have agreed to pay their taxes :wink:

I didn't see a like to the charity called IRS

Does this mean that if someone clicks through to amazon via HUKD that amazon pay HUKD 5%?
If amazon can give 5% to charity I guess they can give between say 2.5% to 5% to HUKD owners?

Just curious how this click through commision works.

Yes, I meant links generally, Amazon don't really like cashback sites much.

Ho EQL,

You have a lot to learn my little friend, fundraising is just a small part of the expenses, there is management, overheads just like any other company, it's a business you twit, the only difference between these rip off charities and any other company is they cream off as much of the revenue because there is no stakeholders, therefore pay the charity bosses massive six figure sums and spend a crap load on advertising to show a perception they are somewhat making a difference.

Note also that the amounts paid by Amazon vary by category (unless charities get a special deal) and are based on the amount without shipping.

Not quite sure how charities are getting around it, but Amazon affiliates have this restriction:
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bumble bees it is !

just remember that this 5% they donate will be tax deductible. so less 5% to the state.

I can't see TCB/Quidco giving Amazon cashback at the moment, that's presumably why charity (or KidStart?) is a good option?

Something says to me that they're making too much money if they decide to donate 5% to charity,

Interesting that they do this - it's good way of spending their tax saving - negative press vs positive press...

It's probably easier to give large chunks of money to charity when you barely pay tax.

I use Kidstart and earn 2% cashback on Amazon (just like TCB). Charity begins at home!

Amazon take all of the payment and pay taxes (VAT) on goods, the 5% incentivises charities and hotukdeals (and others) to refer users to them. If you don't go via a charity site or hotukdeals they make more profit, which they may use to invest in their company, or pay to their shareholders. Only when they spend that profit might it get taxed, e.g. if they make payments to their shareholders etc.. I can't see why mittromney would think the 5% would go to the (UK?) government otherwise?
'thieving charities' - citation needed? Charities differ in their expenditure. The Macmillan charity spent £75m fundraising versus £165 on charitable activities in 2015 (about 32% of expenditure on fundraising), though £25m of the £165m was spent on campaigning (which might also contribute to fundraising).

Clearly a ploy to make you feel less bad about buying from this organisation which doesn't pay its taxes!

Thank you.

Exactly. Weird that people moan though when it's completely legal, you'd think they'd moan at the people that keep it legal.

bumblebees it is!

Ive not tried it yet since i wont be buying until the weekend, but i assume if u use a different browser or clear your cookies after using the rabbit rescue link you should be able to go back into topcashback etc for all your other purchases without any worries?

Shame they're not so hot at paying tax.

A post which isn't a deal in the deals section! Watch this end up on the top posts of all time as the mods disregard the rules :P

Nice reminder, but wrong section :smiley:

Rabbit Residence Rescue it is.

If you scroll down to their shop online paragraph - there's an easy fundraising link you go through there to send amazon cashback their way.

It would be lovely.

Oh okay. That's too much faffing about though. Amazon should just add it to the checkout.

never seen it on checkout. I ordered the other day as well and never seen it.

Been there.

How do some people manage to squeeze so much stupid into such a small brain.

Which charity? HMRC?

Good idea, I always forget about it :smiley:

They could just pay their staff a decent wage

So it's like cashback sites like Quidco, except the 'cashback' goes to the charity of your choice.

"B" is sad. It means we'll have to help them even more.

A: Out of accounted for budgets. Just like defence and foreign aid.
B: This will be almost zero by 2020.

Do you realise some charities are funded by central or local government. Where is this money coming from?

I'm sorry, I'm giving up. If you don't like the idea, simply shop at Amazon without using any of those links. :wink:

​You are right they don't pay much but based on what they have paid it would be £600,000 we lose. So the charitys can take out ad's in the media? employee street muggers? pay their ceo's?

It means they take it from us (to give to charity) or pay us. There's no choosing on their part. We are the ones in this instance choosing to deny ourselves the money.

It's not denied to you. You can actually take the money from Amazon and give it to charity of your choice.

...or don't use the link and let Amazon to decide what to do with it. To pay more tax, for example.

I'm saying that the 5% which would've been received by the state in tax. Will instead be given to a charity. So based on how much tax they paid last year potentially £600,000 will be denied to us, the taxpayer.

​I'm saying the money is outright denied to us, the taxpayer. It's not part of a referral payment from their marketing budget which is accounted for in their pricing. This costs them nothing. But denies us. Based on how much tax they did pay last year, which was a pittance to start with a further £600,000 will be denied to us.

Happy to help :smiley:

Thankyou for the info, I'll do that now :-)

I didn't realise they did this over here. On the US site it's much easier to setup (it's done through the Amazon website) and the list of charities appears to be endless

Oh I did not know this.. just bought some stuff from amazon too.. how do I do it I didn't see anything on there..? Thanks