Quote Originally Posted by Bjauck View Post
I am not an accountant so don’t rely on this
My mother has an accountant. She makes donations and at the end of the tax year, along with her tax return, I think there is an IRD form for the donation details together with the receipts provided by the charities. The form should be available on the IRD website.

I think the donation rebate maximum is limited to 1/3 of your taxable income.

So if you donated $1000 and your taxable income is $50,000, your rebate is $333.33. I think. If you donated $100,000 with $50,000 taxable income your rebate would be $16,666.67

However I have never filed a donation rebate form as all my donations are small and I never get receipts!
Have you considered making fewer but larger donations, claiming the rebate, and then donating the rebate?