Coalition wants wealthy to donate more

THE federal coalition plans to revive a body to encourage community philanthropy among Australia's wealthy if it wins the next election.

Opposition families spokesman Kevin Andrews on Tuesday flagged the proposal to re-establish the former Howard government's community business partnership within six months of winning government.

"The partnership ... will encourage prominent Australians from the business and community sectors to work together for the benefit of the community," he told the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney.

Mr Andrews noted philanthropic and charity contributions had tapered off in the years following the global financial crisis.

The coalition's deregulation taskforce, led by Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos, would investigate ways to cut red tape for charities.

Mr Andrews reiterated the coalition's intention to dump the government's national charity and not-for-profit sector regulator.

"It has become yet another great big new bureaucracy," he added.

A coalition government would instead set up an small independent organisation to represent charity interests to government.

The body would liaise with federal, state and territory governments on developing a new, common financial and other reporting standard.

This would stop the practice of charities having to prepare multiple reports each year for different funding and regulatory bodies.

He also said charities in Britain had morphed into "quasi government organisations" with more than 25,000 charities in the Britain receiving more than three-quarters of their funding from governments.

"There is a danger that government can seduce community groups into becoming its mouthpiece," Mr Andrews added.

"When the civil sector accepts this arrangement, it effectively has lost its independence."

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