Question

Making a donation to Charity

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 14, 2020
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I am self employed and want to donate some money to charity, how do I categorise this transaction as a donation and not a payment??? Or is it a payment?

QuickBooks Self-Employed

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EmmaM

Level 10

Hello, Sawbery👋 The best thing to do is look to look at the guidance from HMRC on this and confirm with an accountant how they want you to record it, are you wanting to record this as tax relief charitable giving? Which box on the Self Assessment are you wishing this to show in? As we are not accountants we can not give accountant advice however if you know which box you want this to show in we can certainly help.

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SawberyAuthor

Yes I would want it to be tax relief charitable giving. How do I do this?

MariaSoledadG

QuickBooks Team

Let's sort this out, Sawbery.

QuickBooks Self-Employed is designed to track business expenses and income transactions to help with your Schedule C. The program also follows the Schedule C categories for self-employed individuals and freelancers.

Currently, we don’t have a specific category for charitable donations. If you consider the donation as a business expense, select the closest category when manually recording or categorising your donations. If you’re unsure which one to select, I’d recommend consulting your accountant.

For future reference, please read this article: QuickBooks Self-Employed Overview.

Fill me in if you need help. I'll make sure to assist.

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mcjury82

Will there be an update in the future which would allow a charity category? I am sure that there are many people that would benefit from using it, which would be a simple bit of coding.

Kristine Mae

Moderator

That's a good feature, Mcjury82.

For now, we're unable to provide when this will be available. I suggest sending feedback directly to our product engineers. We're taking notes of our users' ideas and insights.

Let me guide you. Here's how:

Click Assistant inside QuickBooks Self-Employed.
Enter "Feedback" in the Type something field.
Select Add a feature.

Get back to us if you have other concerns. We're around to help you. Take care!

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ExploreMarketing

Same question and need with how to input donations to a church and/or non profit in my Quickbooks.

JessT

Moderator

Hi ExploreMarketing,

Thank you for joining in on the thread.

You can follow Ashleigh's instructions. If you need further assistance, please feel free to reach out to our dedicated QBSE Support team. That way, they can guide you with this.

Let me know if you have other questions in mind.

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