Productivity Commission Draft Report: Future Foundations for Giving
Submission overview
This submission was made in response to the Commission’s draft report Future foundations for giving, which is of extremely high quality and comprehensive in its scope and recommendations. We feel that the Commission has considered the issues raised in our original submission and those from other organisations that argued for reform of the current philanthropy laws, particularly concerning DGR status.
Overall, we agree with the majority of the Commission’s findings and recommendations in the areas covered by our original submission – you can read our original submission here. Notwithstanding our support for these proposed reforms, we think some aspects of the report could be improved with further clarification, information or explanation. Before covering these aspects in more detail, we reiterated one overarching point.
Animal welfare charities (charities with the purpose of preventing or relieving the suffering of animals) are consistently underestimated by policymakers in terms of their importance to the Australian community and the value of the work they do.
As we stated in our original submission, animal welfare charities are consistently in the top three causes Australian donors support, with 41% of givers classified as ‘highly motivated’ to support this cause. Animal welfare is also a key concern of donors giving in response to natural disasters, with the majority of Australian donors seeking to contribute to organisations associated with disaster response.
Please direct any correspondence concerning this submission to Dr Bidda Jones (connect@allianceforanimals.org.au)
Read our submission
In this submission, a coalition of 7 leading animal welfare charities respond to the Productivity Commission’s draft report: Future foundations for giving and delves further into the case for extending tax concessions to animal welfare charities.