If your Canadian registered charity conducts foreign activities there are rules that apply. If you are having trouble explaining that to foreign groups that you work with you might find our article “Canadian Charities and Foreign Activities – A Very…
[FURTHER UPDATED ARTICLE: Foreign Universities Applying to be Registered Universities in Canada: What we have learned.] Here is our updated article on Foreign Universities Applying for Prescribed University Status in Canada 2018. If your university or alma mater is outside…
I felt I had to write an article because the myth that low overhead is good is so widespread and pernicious. I originally wrote the article in 2008 and updated it in 2018. When a charity does financial statements that…
I am looking forward to presenting to the CAGP Advanced Canadian Gift Planning Symposium on international philanthropy in Ottawa on October 17, 2018. Robert Kleinman, Executive Vice-President of The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal, and myself will present on “Charity Performed Abroad…
We recently looked at Which Canadian charities received funds for political activities from foreign sources in 2016? We hope that you find the article interesting.
The case of Markou v. The Queen, 2018 TCC 66 (CanLII) in the Tax Court of Canada dealt with a leveraged donation program called “Donation Program for Medical Science and Technology”- what CRA used to refer to as an “abusive charity…
Here is an article I recently wrote entitled Top Canadian Charity Law Issues for Charity Village. It highlights some of the top compliance issues that a Canadian charity should be concerned with.
I am looking forward to delivering a presentation next week in Winnipeg on Canadian Charities Conducting Foreign Activities: Compliance Requirements. I will discuss the rules for foreign activities but also some recent developments involving CRA. Here is the description. Canadian…
Here is our article CRA releases information on Universities Outside Canada – good news for foreign universities. This will be of interest to universities outside of Canada whether they are prescribed foreign universities or not. [HERE IS AN UPDATED ARTICLE:…
Understanding legal compliance for registered charities is not easy but Blumbergs is offering exciting new upcoming events in 2018 that will help. Fundamentals of the T3010 and Transparency for Canadian charities On Friday June 1, 2018, Blumbergs’ will be holding a…
We are adding some exciting new functionality with CharityData.ca. First, it is easy to see what gifts a Canadian registered charity gives to another Canadian registered charity on the CRA website. But what if you want to know which charities…
David Sherman, a very knowledgeable and respected Canadian tax writer and practitioner, had expressed a concern that the changes in the 2018 Federal Budget that were meant to have simplified the system for recognizing prescribed foreign universities may have the…
Blumbergs has created the largest Canadian registered charity information portal at www.charitydata.ca with up to 13 years information on every Canadian registered charity. We have just added additional ways to sort data at www.charitydata.ca. You can search by name, BN, Program,…
The Liberal government has unveiled their 2018 Federal Budget today. Here is our article Canadian Federal Budget 2018 and its impact on non-profits and charities.
CRA has recently updated their guidance RC191 – Qualified Donee Becoming a Prescribed University Outside Canada (CRA). The changes are minor. They have updated the Charities and Giving links to the new Canada.ca website. For a more in-depth discussion of…
In the past US and other charities had mainly looked to establishing a Canadian counterpart non-profit or registered charity when they thought that either there were fundraising opportunities in Canada or they wish to conduct their own charitable activities in Canada. …
The Department of Finance is reviewing Canada's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regime. They have published a consultation paper at Reviewing Canada's Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime. They are looking for submissions on the discussion paper before April 30, 2018. I have…
Over the last 10 or more years, we have published over 2500 blog posts. Except for a few avid readers, that might be a little overwhelming so we have started to create a directory of some of the top resources…
We noted a few months ago that “CRA recently revokes registered charity status of 2 large religious groups doing foreign activities“. We provided the limited details that were available from the CRA Charities Listing at the time. Now here are…
The CRA has been working for years on the Charities IT Modernization Project or CHAMP. CHAMP is going to affect charity applications in that they will need to be filed electronically, as of November 2018. CHAMP will also allow charities to…
Here is an updated article on the difference between a conduit and a structured arrangement – it is entitled Canadian Charities and Foreign Activities: Conduit versus Structured Arrangement. .
In our note “CRA Questions on Charities Assisting Those Affected by the Conflict in Syria” it includes some common questions and answers from CRA on charities assisting those affected by the conflict in Syria.
In this article “Top 68 CRA Reasons for Denying your Canadian Registered Charity Application” we have obtained from CRA a list of some of the most common and not so common reasons for CRA to be concerned with a charity…
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…