Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Benefacts Project: Discussion
2:10 pm
Ms Patricia Quinn:
Yes it is. We follow a model that was established some 15 years ago in the United States of America with a company called GuideStar. This is a very well-known organisation in the US, which was established to do very similar things to what Benefacts is dong. It was built on the idea that there is a lot of wasted data, which in the US situation was filed with the Internal Revenue Service. People make their tax returns and gain the benefit of tax relief for giving to charities, or they operate within a tax benevolent environment-----