Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Charity and taxation

Well I have just finished the London to Paris cycle ride. It was great fun, and at times exhilarating to think there's life in the old legs yet! There were all sorts riding for all sorts of charities. A couple of us were riding for Christian Aid, but there were all sorts of much smaller charities represented too.

One thing which captured my interest was a group of around 15 cycling from various Pricewaterhousecoopers tax departments. They were a friendly bunch ...even though they stuck together and did their own thing on the last evening ...they were treating it as a chance to do a bit of team building I think. Their nominated charity was for children with leukemia ...although their charity tee shirts tended to give way to pwc ones ....

I questioned one of them at dinner one evening. Lets say they raised £30k between them. It could be more, could be less, but won't be far off. That's fantastic. But how much taxation which well off fee paying clients ought to be paying - and ought to go into amongst other things the NHS to help kids with leukemia - will they "save" their clients between them once they are back at work????

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like reading your blog, please keep on posting! :P

4:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi, I love your blog, keep it up! I'm an accounting student in Canada working towards becoming a CA. It is great to read about your career shift and enjoyment of NGO work. Your experienced take on business-folk and business at large is eye-opening. I also hope to eventually work somewhere that is doing good things for nations and peoples.

Karl//

6:01 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home