Prof Myles McGregor Lowndes will provide a brief examination of the latest data on tax-deductible giving in Australia by individual taxpayers as claimed on their 2008-09 tax returns. Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM is the Director of The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS). He has advised and held board positions in a large variety of nonprofit organisations over a period of twenty-five years. Solicitor with a current practice certificate (admitted in the Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia). He is a consultant to McCullough Robertson Lawyers engaged solely in high level legal and taxation advice to large national and international nonprofit organisations. He is also a member of the ATO Charities Consultative Committee. He is presently a Governor of the Queensland Community Foundation and member of the Community Gaming Benefit Fund which distributes up to $35m annually to community organisations. In June 2003, Myles was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) "For service to the community by providing education and support in legal, financial and administrative matters to nonprofit organisations." Links with sector: Queensland Law Society, National Law Institute, Fundraising Institute - Australia, Founding Director - Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Limited, Volunteering Australia, International Third Sector Research, Association for Research on Voluntary and Nonprofit Associations. Dr Oonagh Breen is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University College Dublin where her teaching includes comparative charity law and policy. A graduate of UCD and Yale Law School and a qualified barrister, her research appraises the potential for the development of more structured legal relationships between the State and the non-profit sector from the joint perspectives of regulation of the sector and facilitation of its work in a comparative context. A former Fulbright Scholar and holder of an Emerging Scholar Award from ARNOVA (2006), Oonagh was awarded an ICNL/Cordaid Distinguished Research Award in 2008 for her work in the area of European regulation of charitable organization. Oonagh has spent time as a visiting Research Fellow at the Hauser Centre for Nonprofits, Harvard (2009) and as a visiting Scholar at the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, Brooklyn Law School (2010). She has published extensively in the field of charity regulation both nationally and internationally and has participated actively in policy processes leading to the reform of charity law, including fundraising regulation, in Ireland. Most recently, she was appointed to the Special Advisory Council of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Washington DC.Dr Oonagh Breen's presentation from the Reforming Fundraising Regulation Conference on fundraising regulation in the UK and Ireland.