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Unincorporated Association Taxes Help

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pink-ladie-0 | 14:07 Fri 01st May 2020 | Law
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Hello

I volunteer for what is classed as an unincorporated association - we do not make any profit, however, we do sell items which fund the purchase of the items we sell. We have a registered business bank account which we pay a fee for.

I guess what I'm asking is do we need to register as maybe a non-profit or at the very least register as paying taxes even though no profit is made? We have only had our bank account since the beginning of the year, we have had a separate paypal and purchases have always been as a business never as friends and family.

We have a model constitution ect

Any help appreciated as I'm ignorant but obviously as we are helping people we don't want to be breaking the law.

We don't qualify to be a charity as we don't fundraise for 5,000 a year or more, we would be lucky if in a year if we got £500, which would go back into purchases and postage
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You're simply operating in the same way that many local sports clubs (etc) do. As you're not making any profit, I can't see any need for any type of registration at all:
https://www.gov.uk/unincorporated-associations
It's normal for such unincorporated associations to have to pay tax on any bank interest they receive but not on any other income. I'd imagine you probably don't receive any bank interest though. Assuming you don't I agree with Buenchico

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