Canadian Charity Law

Charity law in Canada is a mixture of federal and provincial legislation plus common law and trust law. It is important that registered charities understand their compliance requirements. If you wish to understand your charity law obligations you can retain our law firm by contacting us.

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Canadian Charities can obtain very discounted computer software

Buying lots of computer software can put a real dent in a charities budget.  On the other hand software is essential and can save chariites lots of time and money.  TechSoup Canada provides very discounted software to Canadian charities.  They…

CRA Charity Checklist on Terrorism

Here is a “Checklist for Charities on Avoiding Terrorist Abuse” put out by the Charity Directorate of Canada Revenue Agency.  It is a concise and helpful tool for charities to use to ensure that their resources are not misused by…

Sample Financial Statement for Canadian Charity on CRA website

If you are looking for a sample financial statement for a Canadian charity CRA has just published one of their website.  Every Canadian charity in addition to filing the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return needs to file with that return…

T3010A and T3010B CRA forms now saveable and fillable

CRA just advised that certain T3010 forms on their Charities and Giving Web site, have been improved so that they are now saveable in addition to being fillable.  By downloading the fillable/saveable PDF version of the form charities can save…

What is a Good Canadian Charity?

What are the hallmarks of a good charity.  Boy that is hard.  Easier to know what are the hallmarks of a bad charity.  Well luckily the UK Charity Commission has come up with the following 6 hallmarks for a good…

Foreign Barriers to Foreign activities by Canadian charities

There is an interesting article in a newsletter entitled Global Trends in NGO Law published by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.  In this article it discusses how many countries are restricting charities and philanthropists from funding projects or operating…

CRA successfully attacks abusive charity gifting tax shelters

According to CRA In 2008, the value of charity tax shelter gifting arrangements has been reduced by 1/2.  This is an important victory for CRA in curbing some of the more extreme charity tax shelter arrangements. At the 2009 National…