Payroll giving means you can make regular donations from your pay to non-profit 'donee' organisations and receive immediate tax benefit. Tax credits for payroll donations are calculated at 33.33 cents for each dollar donated which is deducted from your PAYE.

Magdalena Aotearoa Trust has Inland Revenue-approved donee status. So if your employer has taken up this option, you might like to think about making a regular donation to the trust in this way.

Maybe you've never gone about claiming money back for donations, because of needing to get receipts and remembering to send them off at the end of the tax year. With payroll giving, you can potentially get money back that you might not have bothered to claim in the past - effectively making donations more affordable, which may encourage some people to increase how much they give.

There's info about how it all works on the IRD website. http://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax-individual/tax-credits/payroll-giving/...