Guide for employers

Setting up a workplace giving program

You may consider setting up a workplace giving program to allow your employees to regularly donate to charities.

Workplace giving is a simple and effective way for employees to regularly donate to charities or organizations that are entitled to receive tax deductible donations and have deductible gift recipient (DGR) status.

Workplace giving is optional. Both the employee and the employer must agree to participate.

If you establish a workplace giving program, you need to be aware of the resulting PAYG withholding implications, including:

• you do not have to reduce the amount of tax you withhold from your employees' salaries
• you have the right to decide on a minimum amount of donation per pay you are prepared to deduct from your employees' income
• in some circumstances, small donation amounts will result in minimal or no change to the amount of tax to be withheld from each pay.

	For more information on workplace giving programs, refer to How to set up a workplace giving program.
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