ai4abundance.org/ireland · One regulator, a governance code declared publicly every year, and a donation relief that pays the charity rather than the donor. This is not a variant of the UK regime.
| Feature | Why it changes our advice |
|---|---|
| Charities Regulator | Registration and oversight under the Charities Act 2009, across roughly 11,500 charities |
| Annual report, ten months after year end | Filing late is an offence under the Act. The Regulator has removed charities from the register and brought prosecutions for it |
| Charities Governance Code | Comply or explain, and the position must be declared in the annual report. That declaration has been required since 2021 and it is visible |
| Charitable Donation Scheme, not Gift Aid | Relief under section 848A goes to the charity, grossed up at 31%, on donations of €250 or more in a year, and it needs a CHY number and donor certificates. The modelling is nothing like Gift Aid |
| EU GDPR | Ireland sits under EU GDPR and the Data Protection Commission, not UK GDPR |
| Charities SORP, new edition | The new SORP, published 31 October 2025 for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2026, covers the Republic too |
Charitable Donation Scheme modelling and CHY3 tracking · trustee packs aligned to the Charities Governance Code · AI policy under EU GDPR · annual report preparation for the Regulator
The compliance declaration is annual and it is public. We build the pack that makes it a short decision rather than a scramble.
Because the relief is grossed up and lands with the charity, a donor sitting just under the annual threshold is worth more than the gift suggests. Most donor files have never been segmented this way.
Written for the Irish regime, not a UK policy with the letters UK taken out.
The regulator, the statute, the governance code and the donation relief named here were checked against primary and official sources on 12 November 2026. The United Kingdom is a separate set of jurisdictions and has its own page. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.
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