According to Canadian Press “The federal revenue agency can now hand the police possible evidence of serious crime — including terrorist activity — that it happens to come across while reviewing taxpayer files. The Canada Revenue Agency gained the little-noticed new authority,…
The Globe and Mail had an article by Konrad Yakabuski questioning the degree of transparency about sources of funding with Canadian registered charities that are “think tanks” Here is the Globe and Mail article “Think tanks need to show us the money“.…
For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find the Blumbergs’ Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012 to be useful and interesting. We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…
It seems that about every year there is a new T3010 form. CRA has released the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return for returns for fiscal year ends after Jan 1, 2015. Here is the slightly revised T3010 (15e) Registered Charity Information Return…
The US GAO has issued a report entitled “Tax-exempt organizations: Better Compliance Indicators and Data, and More Collaboration with State Regulators Would Strengthen Oversight of Charitable Organizations”. The report provides an overview of the US tax exempt/non-profit sector and also discusses improving transparency and sharing with state regulators to have…
We are looking forward to presenting the Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015 on April 14, 2015. For information or to register see: Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2015
For a number of months Corporations Canada of Industry Canada has provided more director information on their website with respect to Federal non-profit Corporations under the Canada Corporations Act (“CCA”) and new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). Previously, the list…
CRA has posted the T3010 Registered Charity Information Returns for 82,000 of the 86,000 Canadian registered charities. About 477 Canadian registered charities identified conducting political activities whether by volunteer, staff or spending funds. Here is a link to our article…
Here is the Blumbergs' Ontario Charity Sector Snapshot 2012. For those who are interested in the size and scope of the Ontario registered charity sector you may find it interesting. We have taken a subset of the 2012 T3010 data…
Blumbergs has provided a submission to the Finance Committee (FINA) entitled Canadians want non-profit transparency and effective charities. Here are some of the other submissions dealing with charities and non-profits or taxation: Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) AUCC CCVO Canadian Secular Alliance…
Recently the Globe and Mail had a story entitled “Canada Revenue Agency delists foreign charities”. CRA has recently added the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to the “List of registered foreign charitable organizations that have received a gift from Her…
I was asked by a friend in Vancouver to prepare a Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector 2012. Hopefully someone will find it helpful. Some of the highlights of the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the BC Charity Sector include: 11,995…
CRA has been sending out numerous notices with respect to the importance of Canada Corporations Act (CCA) corporations continuing to the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (CNCA). A number of people have contacted us with respect to the notice. In…
We recently reviewed the T3010 information for 2012. The database was prepared by the Charities Directorate of CRA in June 2014 and covers about 85,477 charities which is almost all of the 2012 T3010 returns. Canadian registered charities were required…
Over the last few years in both Canada and the US there have been greater attempts to rate charities. As part of the Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute 2014 see “The Great Debate: Be it Resolved That Rating charities improves…
In this article entitled “Partial Glimpse at 2013 T3010 Filings Dealing with Political Activities by Canadian Registered Charities” I discuss the 51,000 Canadian registered charities have had their T3010 for 2013 added to the CRA database so far. This 51,000 represents…
Jeff Gray recently wrote a piece in the Globe and Mail on a quirky category of foreign charities who are given qualified donee status by virtue of being on the “List of registered foreign charitable organizations that have received a…
I recently received from the Charities Directorate of CRA some charts showing the combined assets and revenues of the Canadian registered charity sector for 2011 and 2012. A few quick comments: There was an increase in reported assets from 2011…
Here is a copy of our submission to the Finance Committee for the 2015 pre-budget consultations. In the pre-budget submission we discuss having greater transparency with both non-profit organizations and registered charities and also the issue of charities and political…
Here is an interesting article that appeared in the website. It discusses a “climate change-sceptic charity” that is being forced to stop certain “educational” activities and to set up an affiliated but separate entity to propagate material that “lacked balance and…
In the 2012 Federal Budget the Conservative government announced that it was allocating $8 million for various initiatives related to charities and political activities. More recently papers have been describing a $13 million budget. I wondered about the…
In May, Cathy Hawara, the Director General of the Charities Directorate delivered a speech which touches on a number of important issues such as the constitutional framework for charities, political activities by registered charities, independence of the regulator, compliance approach…
We have just released the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Canadian Charity Sector 2012. The Canadian charity sector has grown again. The Canadian charity sector is a vital part of Canadian society and economy with revenue of over $223 billion and expenditures of…
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has released a press release encouraging Canadian to share pre-budget proposals on six key themes. Here is a link to the news release and below is the text: “NEWS RELEASE CANADIANS…