An offer you can’t refuse
ANZ is offering to match donations to charity made by its Internet banking customers. There’s a choice of eight charities, so their should be something for people of all tastes and ideological views.
And, particularly if you’re a top-bracket taxpayer, it’s an offer too good to miss as the end of the tax year approaches. Give, say, $200 to your preferred charity. ANZ’s matching money will bring it up to $400. Then Mr Costello will refund you $100 (well, $96.80 or thereabouts), so you get $400 worth of warm inner glow for the price of a couple of tickets to the footy.
Banks being banks, I was naturally suspicious. But I tried it out and the documentation came back indicating that everything had gone as promised. I guess you have to sign up as an ANZ customer to take advantage of this. But it’s no big hassle and loyalty to one bank is a thing of the past – there’s no need to scrap your existing arrangements if you don’t want to.
Suncorp offers you the chance to round up any BPAY payments via the net – ie if your electricity bill is $287.07, make it $288 and they’ll send the rest on to a nominated charity. Given that this does not make too much difference to people on all sorts of incomes, it’s probably a good idea.
Banks being good citizens of the community, and actually putting some of their money where their mouth is???
Who would have thunk it?
When I looked at the ANZ offer, they required using the pay-anyone access to do the payment. It’s something I’d prefer NOT to have enabled in the net banking. If they could do the charity payment using
the ordinary bPay stuff I’d consider it.
warm inner glow for a hundred bucks? and you’re an economist?!
would be worth considering if I didn’t already contribute so much to my least-favourite charity: the federal treasury.