"Mean Britain - Our companies give too little to charity" 

           Leader
           Saturday June 8, 2002
           The Guardian 

           The generosity gap between UK and US corporate giving was
           already well established. In America, corporations give five times
           as much as here - an average of 1% of pre-tax profits compared
           to 0.2% here.

           Direct corporate donations to charities and voluntary organisations
           in Britain account for less than 5% of their income. Individual donations
           from members of the public provide seven times as much. 

           Now a new European survey suggests continental companies are much more 
           generous than British ones as well. The survey found half of Europe's
           small and medium-sized firms already engage in socially responsible
           activities. In the UK, just 400 companies out of 3.7 million firms
           account for 97% of all donations - in cash and kind - to charities
           and community groups.

           Business is the only source of British charitable revenue that is
           giving less in real terms than it was 10 years ago, according to a 
           National Council for Voluntary Organisations survey.

           http://society.guardian.co.uk/charityfinance/comment/0,8146,729604,00.html

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           "Perceptions" note:

           They _don't_ tell us the whole truth - that 35% of so-called 
           charities' income comes mainly from the only really generous 
           stratum of society -  the _poor_

           see 
           http://www.perceptions.couk.com/fakes.html 
           for independent survey result and media links ] 

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           In Britain the fake "charities" scam - just like regressive
           tax scams - takes most from the poor - then successively 
           less from richer socio-economic strata

           The very rich give nothing to charity but use fake "charitable
           trust" status to avoid taxes and grab immoral "subsidies"
           paid-for by taxation of the middle-incomed and the poor - 

           Try
           http://www.guardian.co.uk/northsouth/
           click on "The Northern tax-bill" - (latest data link)
           Goes to:                                       
           http://www.perceptions.couk.com/tax.html#2

           which gives more details of present tax corruption.

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