The Federal government is now providing better information on registered charities on their Open Government Portal website. Here is the description: The List of charities presents data on Canadian charities that are registered under the Income Tax Act and are…
After advocating for over a decade that the confidentiality provisions of the Income Tax Act of Canada need to be updated, Canada’s Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has noted that the confidentiality provisions relating to registered charities, amongst other matters, will hinder their…
Over the last few months, there have been many newsletters and communications dealing with the recent corporate changes in Ontario that came into effect on October 19, 2021. There is widespread misunderstanding about these changes that have left some groups…
CRA has made some changes to their Charities Listing to include RCAAAs as we have discussed in a different blog. In this note, I will share my concern that the current way that the RCAAAs are listed on the CRA…
I just reviewed a report from François Brouard, Andrew Webb, and Marc Pilon, dated November 9, 2022, entitled “Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Association (RCAAA) List of RCAAA and issues on financial information“. They give an introduction to the regulatory requirements…
I recently checked the Advance Search page of the Charities Listing. CRA has now added another search function which divides groups into “Type of Qualified Donee,” and there are now listed namely: 1) Registered Charities (85,842 in total) 2) Registered…
The Globe and Mail on November 1, 2022, had an extensive article reviewing 20 years of financial and other information on Hockey Canada entitled Numbers game – Hockey Canada, under fire for payouts in sexual-assault claims, doesn’t disclose its audited…
On October 31, 2022, Hockey Canada released a Hockey Canada Governance Review Final Report. Fitting that it would be released on Halloween. Governance at Hockey Canada was far scarier than anything I saw coming to our door. Maybe one day…
Twitter has become a problematic platform with problematic leadership and very little moderation. Consequently, its future is in some doubt. If you want to keep in touch with our firm and stay on top of developments affecting Canadian non-profits and…
In a recent Federal Court of Appeal Decision, Fortius Foundation v. Canada (National Revenue), (PDF) the FCA dismissed a motion for interim relief from the charity that CRA has proposed to revoke. The charity wanted to stop CRA from taking…
Today the CBC published an article, “Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free — and it’s legal“. Tonight on The Fifth Estate, there was a report on the same topic. The article reviewed gifts from…
The CRA has published a “readout” on the meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector (ACCS)(pronounced axe!) on August 25, 2022. These readouts provide almost no useful information. I have been highly critical of the Advisory Committee on…
When ordering corporate documents from Corporations Canada, it now appears that additional documents are available. It used to be listed only the documents from the Incorporation under the CNCA or continuance to the CNCA. Older documents under the Canada Corporations…
As many know, as of May 15, 2021, the Ontario Annual Return for OCA/ONCA non-profit corporations can no longer be filed with CRA (as part of the T3010 filing) and must be completed through the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR)…
Below are the full audited Hockey Canada’s financial statements for the last eight years. As we have noted before, Hockey Canada is a soliciting corporation under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) and was supposed to file its financial statements…
It was very interesting to read a report from the Sprott School of Business dealing with Hockey Canada and transparency entitled Hockey Canada – Financial Information: Issues about transparency and responsiveness. The report is definitely worth reading. It was written by…
As we have noted in our blog on July 26, 2022, Hockey Canada is a Federal corporation under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) and as a soliciting corporation, they are supposed to upload their financial statements to the Corporations…
Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the 2023 Canadian Federal Budget. For those who have been following our law firm’s submissions over the last 10 years, they have focussed on transparency and accountability in the non-profit and charity sector.…
We just launched an online copy of the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute 2022 (Recorded October 3, 2022); Every year, Blumbergs has its Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute. This year, for the third time, we did a “mini-institute” – very…
In a recent copy of an access to information package that I requested, there is some discussion in CRA documents of proposed responses relating to the Liberal party platform’s commitment to not provide charitable status to anti-abortion groups. It is…
Here is a draft Business Plan for the Charities Directorate of CRA. It will be helpful for people who want to understand how the Charities Directorate operates and what it prioritizes. Here is the executive summary: Section 1 Executive Summary…
Here is the WE Charity/Free the Children – Notice of Penalty from CRA dated Aug 24 2015 from CRA. We just received a redacted copy from CRA. I am not sure if this document has been made public before. The…
There have been many people wondering how COVID has affected the Canadian charity sector. On March 24, 2021, we released our first report which looked at 1676 registered charities. On June 9, 2021, we released our second report with 11,821…
I recently received a copy of an interesting document from CRA dealing with registered charity audit stats that was released as a result of an access to information request. In this document, the CRA identifies the audit outcomes. It is…