Political Activities and Canadian charities

Canadian charities can carry out more political activities than in the past.  It can be important in achieving your mission that your charity conducts political activities. However, there are still many rules that apply, whether from the Income Tax Act (Canada), lobbyist registration legislation, election advertising legislation or foreign interference legislation. We assist Canadian charities in understanding practical issues and the compliance requirements relating to political activities.  If your organization wishes to retain our law firm to assist your charity or non-profit with political activities and compliance requirements for political activities, you can contact us.

More from the T3010-13 on political activities

I just reviewed the latest T3010 data disk for 2013 and here are the descriptions of activities for political activities by Canadian charities.  This is only based on 7900 of the approximately 86,000 charities. Description Wrote less than 5 letters…

Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2011

We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2011 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project.  We provided an overview of the whole charity sector in the Blumbergs’ Charity Sector Snapshot 2011.  We have taken a…

Political activities self-assessment tool

Zachary Euler of the CRA Charities Directorate mentioned today in a presentation to the Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute that CRA has recently posted a “Political activities self-assessment tool” on their website.  The “Political activities self-assessment tool” is a helpful, plain…

Some recent CRA webinars dealing with political activities

The Charities Directorate has recently put up new webinars dealing with political activities.  Charities are allowed to conduct political activities but there are rules and limits around how that should be done.  These webinars will help charities understand CRA’s views…

CRA comments on political activities and Canadian registered charities

CRA has provided some comments on registered charities and political activities. We have consolidated these various articles into one document. CRA information on registered charities and political activities.pdf [Update – CRA has created a new space on their website with…