Average donation tax credit claimed per person

For 2025, the average amount of donations tax credit (DTC) per claimant was $1,019. This is an increase of 8.0% on the average DTC claimed per person in the 2024 tax year.  

Graph showing average donation tax credits claimed on the vertical axis from 0 to $1,200, and tax years on the horizontal axis from 2005 to 2025. The line begins around $280 in 2005 and goes up to just over $1,000 in 2025.

P - statistics released for 2024 and 2025 are provisional totals, and will be revised in future releases.

This graph shows the average DTC claimed per person between the 2005 and 2025 tax years, which has increased over time.

In 2009, the Government removed the upper limit for the total amount of tax credits a person can claim. This resulted in a $200 increase in the average donation tax credit claimed per person in 2009. 

This increase reflects that some claims would previously have been capped, and that some claims were previously split between couples.