The Rev Dodgson said:

captain_spalding said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Totally different situation and completely irrelevant.

No, two aspects of the same thing.

It’s easy to be generous, when you can get it back by other means, or you’re not using your money at all.

I agree, it achieves some good. It just doesn’t work quite the way that the news-bites present it.

But the point is, you don’t get it back. You get back the tax you would have paid on that money if you hadn’t given it away.

or you scrape the tax that someone else could have got back but didn’t do the accounts for