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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CRA Charities Directorate Audit Statistics

In a presentation to E&Y Gary Huenemoeder of the Charities Directorate provided certain updated audit statistics for 2016-2017 which shows the outcomes of the CRA's completed audits. Audit statistics(2016-2017) •Audits completed –652 Results: •Clean audits –38 •Education letters issued –387…

Who is the true donor of this gift?  CRA 3 minute video

CRA recently released a short video on who is the true donor.   These and other short videos are helpful for charities but nothing replaces real in person programs.  Unfortunately, CRA has stopped their popular Charities Information Sessions (which were called “Road…

Canadian charities operating outside of Canada and Sanctions

If you are a Canadian charity operating outside of Canada you need to pay attention to whether there are sanctions relating to a particular country, business, organization, individual etc.  You can see an updated list of at the Consolidated Special Economic Measures…

New online service to order documents filed under the CNCA

Starting December 12, 2017, Corporations Canada will allow copies of documents filed under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act  (CNCA) to be purchased online. Copies of the documents can be ordered using Corporations Canada’s Online Filing Centre and orders will be…

CRA Launches Charities Education Program

The CRA has recently announced the launch of a new program called the Charities Education Program.  The program is going to have CRA auditors visit charities but not in the normal audit capacity.   The CRA anticipates that about 500 of these visits…