NEW TAX LEVIED ON COMPANIES MyZA

Tekkie Tax is a new fundraising project for a vast selection of NGO’s in the country. For the first time ever you can pay “tax” for a good cause.
Tekkie Tax invites corporates to take hands with the project by getting their company and employees onboard. Mechelle de Jager, Company Liaison stated that “we urgently need the support of companies around South Africa to ensure the success of the 2013 project, we firmly believe that as a group of motivated individuals and organisations, we can achieve greater things for each of us than the sum of our individual efforts combined”
For the first time ever, South Africa will have an annual fundraising event where you can choose which welfare sector you want to benefit as a result of your donation.
Animals
Basic Community Welfare
Children
Disability
Education
The first Tekkie Tax campaign will take place on 31 May 2013. Members of the public are asked to get a Tekkie Tax sticker for a R10 donation from any of the participating outlets or participating welfare organisations. You could also order what you need directly from their website.
There will be 5 different kinds of stickers, each representing a beneficiary sector. People will be able to choose which of the 5 sectors they would like to support (Animals, Basic community welfare, Children, Disability or Education) by buying one of those sector’s stickers.
It’s as easy as…
Get permission from your office to participate in the Tekkie Tax campaign on Friday 31 May 2013.
Promote the campaign with our free publicity material: posters and brochures to ensure that each person in the office will know about the campaign and gladly participate
Choose the beneficiary sector/s you and your colleagues would like to support and get the appropriate stickers: Animals, Basic community welfare, Children, Disability or Education. Ensure that each of your colleagues have one.
Wear your tekkies! Now that you each have a sticker, show the world where your heart lies by wearing your sticker and your favourite pair of tekkies on
Friday 31 May 2013.
Annelise de Jager, project organiser, said that “as experts in our field of service we know that running a fundraising campaign is expensive, labour intensive and holds a lot of risk factors for the organisation running it. We have brought together a mix of the most accountable welfare organisations in the country for one big campaign where the public can decide who they want to benefit from their donations. This will save a lot of money and will create a platform for organisations that normally do not have the infrastructure to organise this kind of campaign.”
The campaign is endorsed by the some of the biggest and most accountable NGOs in the country:
Child Welfare SA
SOS Children’s Villages
CHOC (Childhood Cancer Foundation)
Special Olympics SA
Endangered Wildlife Trust
HPCA – Hospice Palliative Care SA
Imisebeyelanga Services
Adopt a School Foundation
South African Woman’s Federation (SAVF) and so the list goes on . . .
Companies of South Africa: Are you ready to have fun on the 31st May 2013? If not, well you still have time to get out your tekkies and be part of the coolest, wackiest most charitable time of the year.