After my very disappointing first read of the “Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector” which was just released last Friday here are some further thoughts. This is the first report. The Advisory Committee on the…
Today I received more data from CRA for the T3010. It has partial information for 2019 and 2020 as at February 28, 2021. For 2019, there are 79840 charities reporting. For 2020, there are 25,877 There was an extension provided…
I recently took a look at the “Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector” which was just released on Friday. I was going to write a long blog but I am stuck on one sentence in the…
The US largest organization representing non-profits, which has over 25,000 non-profit members, has called for the IRS to eliminate their Form 1023-EZ charity application. They call for “the need to eliminate Form 1023- EZ and restore integrity to the process…
Here is a document in Excel that we recently received from the Charities Directorate of the CRA. It is entitled T3010 Master Public Data Dictionary – January 2021 and it discusses recent changes to the T3010. If you click the link…
This Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Charity Sector in Nova Scotia 2018 provides a snapshot of the registered charity sector in Nova Scotia taken from a subset of the 2018 T3010 filings. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of…
2020 was a turbulent year. The CRA has updated their document P113 – Gifts and Income Tax for 2020. The P113 is a helpful guide to the tax consequences of donations to registered charities and qualified donees. The big change…
Here is a long CRA FAQ dealing with the CEWS which was last updated in early February, 2021: Canada Revenue Agency Frequently asked questions – Canada emergency wage subsidy (CEWS) The following FAQs are intended to provide more in-depth…
In 2020 CRA gave an extension to many charities to deal with the unexpected events around COVID. In 2021, unless the situation changes drastically, there will be no extensions. The normal rules apply for filing of the T3010 for registered…
As we noted previously the Federal Government has launched pre-budget consultations for the 2021 Federal Budget. Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission relating to charities, transparency and other related issues. Here are our main recommendations: Primary Recommendations Recommendation 1: That…
CRA has published a newer version of Form AUT-01 Authorize a Representative for Offline Access in late December 2020. The Form AUT-01 can be used by an individual or business (such as a registered charity) who wishes to authorize a…
The CRA recently released the Report on the Charities Program 2018 to 2020. If you are very interested in the charity sector in Canada you might find it interesting reading. A few quick thoughts: Both the Commissioner and the Director-General…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 84,323 of the 85,800 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 for 2018 and were…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 84,323 of the 85,800 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 for 2018 and were…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 84,323 of the 85,800 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 for 2018 and were…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2018 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers 84,323 of the 85,800 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 for 2018 and were…
The Federal government has launched another budget consultation – this one for Budget 2021. I sure wish there was an option to save time that allows people just to push a button and provide the same budget submission they made…
The Canadian Press recently published an article “Funding to help former governors general set up charities is discretionary: Privy Council“. The article notes: “The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created…
I am not sure how many people are aware but the Ontario government is doing a consultation on the Ontario Corporations Act and ONCA. The deadline for responding is February 8, 2021. Ostensibly the title sounds like it is focused…
Canada just added 13 new listed terrorist organizations including the Proud Boys, Atomwaffen Division, the Base, and Russian Imperial Movement. They also added Al Qaida affiliates, ISIS affiliates and a Kashmiri group. As Public Safety notes “When an entity is…
I requested a long time ago from CRA some WE Charity early documents. They only arrived this week and here they are: 886578095RR0001_Application_Redacted 886578095RR0001_Gov-Docs_Redacted 886578095RR0001_N.O.R_Redacted 2005 T3010 – WE Charity 2005 WE Charity FS_Redacted 2006 T3010 – WE Charity…
The PBO just released a report on a private member’s bill, Bill C-256, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (donations involving private corporation shares or real estate). The PBO report notes “This private member’s bill would amend the Income…
There are over 600,000 directors of Canadian charities alone. There are many more people in Canada who serve on the boards of non-profits that are not charities. Non-profits and registered charities need to have directors who are capable, caring, connected…
The CBC’s Jason Proctor wrote an article today on “Pandemic tests limits of religious freedom as churches set to fight B.C.’s COVID-19 rules in court: Group of churches claims public health measures unfairly target religious gatherings“. It quotes Mark Blumberg and…