Here is our new article Options for dealing with ONCA for Ontario non-profit organizations. It discusses some of the options available to Ontario non-profit corporations now that the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) has come into force.
Here is an announcement from CRA relating to new webinars dealing with gifting and receipting on November 16 and 17, 2021. Charities information webinars We are pleased to announce that the next charities information webinars about gifting and receipting will…
The Ontario government has launched a new modern Ontario Business Registry system today, October 19, 2021. The new Ontario Business Registry offers simpler and faster access to many services and documents for organizations that are registered, incorporated, or licensed to…
The long-delayed Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (“ONCA”) has officially come into force today, October 19, 2021. ONCA provides a modern legislative framework for Ontario’s not-for-profit corporations and charities. ONCA generally now applies automatically to all existing non-profit corporations incorporated…
The new forms for the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) were released on October 18, 2021. ONCA and the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR) will be launched at 9am today. Here are the ONCA forms as of October 18,…
The Ontario PGT has recently put out some interesting information relating to the implementation of ONCA when it is a “charity” or “registered charity”. The most important takeaway relates to the extent that the PGT will be involved (or not…
Here is Blumbergs’ Written Submission to the Department of Finance about the disbursement quota. As we note in the submission, we are firmly in favour of an increase in the disbursement quota. We so suggest possible changes in our submission…
In this article “Should the disbursement quota for registered charities in Canada change or be left alone?”, Mark Blumberg and Jessie Lang discuss the disbursement quota (DQ) and the Department of Finance’s consultation on whether the Income Tax Act should be…
We have recently upgraded the CharityData.ca website. The work on the upgrade has taken place over the last eight months. Some of the changes or improvements include the following: A new search engine that is quicker than the old…
We received a notice from Service Ontario relating to filings prior to ONCA coming into force on October 19, 2021. Essentially any filings done by mail under the OCA need to be completed by September 17, 2021 even though ONCA…
At a time when charities need funds and private foundations alone are sitting on $95 billion dollars, the Advisory Committee to the Charitable Sector (ACCS) has prepared a submission to Finance Canada stating that the disbursement quota (DQ) issue is…
We reviewed the Canadian registered charities that identified they issued official donation receipts and the total amount of donation receipts issued was approximately $19.6 billion. Here is a list of the Canadian charities that issued the largest amount of official…
Here is our note on Which Canadian charities had the largest assets in 2019?. Canadian registered charities are required to disclose on the T3010 their assets. The total assets of all the 83,832 registered charities were over $518 billion. Below…
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,892 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities in Canada that had filed their T3010 and were…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2019. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project and focussed on the T3010s of Ontario registered charities. …
Here is the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2019. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2019 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 83,892 of the approximately 86,000 registered charities…
The Conservatives have put forward some proposals in their platform that are unclear and could have a significant negative effect on the charity sector, especially larger charities such as universities, hospitals, international development and environmental organizations. Here are the proposals…
It took many years but finally, it looks like new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) and the Ontario Business Registry will be launched on October 19, 2021. We will have more on this at our upcoming Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming 2022 Federal Budget. We offer 11 recommendations namely the following: List of Recommendations Primary Recommendations Recommendation…
In this excellent article by Steven Ayer, he writes that confidence in the charity sector has fallen considerably over the last two decades. The article “Confidence in charity leaders has fallen sharply over the last two decades – what does…
With respect to a recent bill passed by the Senate, but not the House of Commons, relating to structured arrangements/direction and control we have prepared the following blog posts with our concerns about the bill and its ultimate impact. …
So the rumour mill says that the Liberals may call a Federal election in August. Hopefully, we will not have the misinformation about charities and elections as we saw in 2019. Essentially, if you are a registered charity there are…
I was in a session with the Ontario government today related to user feedback for the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR). In that session, they advised that the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) is targetted now to come in…
A number of regulations for the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) have been published today in the Ontario Gazette. This raises the question of whether ONCA will come into force on July 1, 2021? It is possible but impossible…