Canadians are rallying around and want to support Syrian refugees coming to Canada. Much of the support is coming from newly established grassroots groups working with registered charities to assist with the integration of Syrian refugees in Canada. The new…
We have prepared as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project this Snapshot on Political Activities in the Canadian Charity Sector 2013. The Snapshot on Political Activities in the Canadian Charity Sector 2013 will be helpful to those who are interested in…
Here is an agenda for the Blumbergs' Charity Law Institute 2015. You can register here.
About 2.7 million Canadians work for Canadian registered charities. They earn approximately $122 billion per year. This article takes data from the CRA’s T3010 Registered Charity Information Return and shows the charities that spend the most on employment compensation. Download…
We have just released the Blumbergs' Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2013 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,000 of the 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were processed…
The Charities Directorate of CRA has released the Charity Program Update 2015. We will discuss the update in this note, except for the parts dealing with political activities which we will discuss here. The Charity Program Update 2015 provides some interesting…
The Department of Finance has released a somewhat in depth report as part its tax evaluation series on “Evaluation of the Federal Charitable Donation Tax Credit“. It is an interesting report. If one is interested in tax incentives the reports…
Here is an interesting quote from the CCVO newsletter. “Albertans…more Scrooge than Saint? The recent stats on charitable donations from Statistics Canada placed Alberta close to the top with the second highest median donation. However Maclean's took it one step further and compared…
For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find the Blumbergs’ Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012 to be useful and interesting. We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…
The CRA Corporate Business Plan discusses CRA plans. It provides some interesting information on the Charities Directorate. Here are some of the highlights: The Charities Directorate has a budget of about $29,154,434. It has about 333 Full Time Equivalent positions. Here…
Over the last 6 weeks Corporations Canada of Industry Canada has sent out an estimated 16,000 notices to approximately 6000 Canadian Federal non-profit corporations that are still under the Canada Corporations Act (CCA). Industry Canada sends notices to the corporation and…
We are looking forward to presenting the Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015 on April 14, 2015. For information or to register see: Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015
CRA has posted the T3010 Registered Charity Information Returns for 82,000 of the 86,000 Canadian registered charities. About 477 Canadian registered charities identified conducting political activities whether by volunteer, staff or spending funds. Here is a link to our article…
CRA has put up another reminder to Canadians about abusive charity gifting tax shelters. The title is “Warning: be cautious if you are thinking of participating in a gifting tax shelter schemes” CRA notes “Since 2006, the CRA has seen a…
Here is the Blumbergs' Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012. For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find it interesting. We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…
Blumbergs has provided a submission to the Finance Committee (FINA) entitled Canadians want non-profit transparency and effective charities. Here are some of the other submissions dealing with charities and non-profits or taxation: Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) AUCC CCVO Canadian Secular Alliance…
Here is some recent T3010 information from the Charities Directorate showing the assets and revenues of Canadian registered charities in 2011 and 2012. It is in both English and French. If you are interested in statistics relating to Canadian charities…
I was delighted to read a publication “Donor Beware: Investigation into the sufficiency of the Canada Revenue Agency's warnings about questionable tax shelter schemes”. The special report was prepared in December 2013 by J. Paul Dubé, the Taxpayers' Ombudsman. The 39 page report rips into charitable…
I was asked by a friend in Vancouver to prepare a Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector 2012. Hopefully someone will find it helpful. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector include: 11,995…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2012. The database was prepared by the Charities Directorate of CRA in June 2014 and covers about 85,477 charities which is almost all of the 2012 T3010 returns. Canadian registered charities were required…
Over the last few years in both Canada and the US there have been greater attempts to rate charities. As part of the Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute 2014 see “The Great Debate: Be it Resolved That Rating charities improves…
I recently received from the Charities Directorate of CRA some charts showing the combined assets and revenues of the Canadian registered charity sector for 2011 and 2012. A few quick comments: There was an increase in reported assets from 2011…
I recently contacted Industry Canada and they advised that as of July 26, 2014 there have been 5,386 continuances to the new CNCA. As there are ostensibly 19,000 Federal corporations that are/were under the old Canada Corporations Act there appear…
In the 2012 Federal Budget the Conservative government announced that it was allocating $8 million for various initiatives related to charities and political activities. More recently papers have been describing a $13 million budget. I wondered about the…