Here is the Blumbergs’ Pre-Budget Submission for the 2022 Federal Budget that we filed on February 25, 2022. Our top recommendations are: List of Recommendations Primary Recommendations Recommendation 1: That the Federal government amend Section 241 of the Income Tax…
The Federal Department of Finance Pre-budget Consultations 2022 has launched. Although it is not mentioned on the announcement (reproduced below) the period of the consultation is January 31 to February 25, 2022. With the occupation in Ottawa and the Russian…
For those who don’t know there is a concept called tax expenditures. It is an estimate of the cost to a government of certain tax concessions. How much does it cost the Federal government to give a tax break such…
As some may know Ontario is going to be having a fixed election this summer. As was the case in the Federal election, the Ontario election has rules around third party election advertising. Remember in June of 2021 an Ontario…
I have been contacted by a small number of charities and individuals who are dealing with the issue of a board member donating to the freedom convoy and how to deal with it. This is a situation where an individual…
The CBC has an article by John Paul Tasker on the banks freezing accounts that are linked to the “Freedom Convoy” and occupation of Ottawa. The article is “Banks are moving to freeze accounts linked to convoy protests. Here’s what…
The demise of the Kids Company charity in the UK was a big event. It was a large charity that had close connections with government that very quickly imploded. The Charity Commission notes: An official report has found that…
Today we received information from Ontario’s Anti-Racism Directorate at the Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism about a new grant program to support Anti-Hate Security Measures for Faith-Based and Cultural Organizations. The Ontario Grant to Support Anti-Hate Security Measures for…
We previously discussed on February 6, 2022 the establishment of a non-profit organization apparently to receive the vast amounts of crowdsourced money for the “Freedom Convoy”. Apparently, they have added more board members. They had three and now they have…
So there is a new non-profit: Freedom 2022 Human Rights and Freedoms. It was just incorporated on January 31, 2022. It appears to be similar to the name of the group identified in the US website/crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo to be…
In March 2021, the Federal Government released their official response to the Report of the Special Committee on the Charitable Sector: “Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector.” The full response can be found in PDF version…
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. We released our second report on June 9, 2021, with 11,821 registered…
The US charity leader and commentator, Vu Le, recently wrote another thought-provoking article entitled “Reports of the nonprofit sector’s death are greatly exaggerated“. In it, he makes many cogent arguments as to why the “social enterprise or B corps or…
Recently Ontario passed Bill 9, Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week Act, 2021. Now in Ontario, the third week in February is non-profit appreciation week. On the plus side, this could be a focal point for organizing some events that show appreciation…
Cryptocurrency has been in the news now for many years. While cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. have received a lot of attention, in my anecdotal experience, very little money has been provided to Canadian charities through cryptocurrency. We…
There are approximately 6,300 private foundations in Canada. Private foundations have been growing at a higher rate than any other type of Canadian registered charity. They have assets of around $100 Billion. Although there are some differences between a private…
The National Post recently had an article by Christopher Nardi “Charity sector worth $300B per year, but CRA audits have dropped four-fold since 2010“. It discusses the dramatic decline in CRA audits previously discussed on our blog at Dramatic changes…
CRA is having today a “Question and answer sessions on the targeted COVID-19 support measures for businesses and organizations”. This may be useful for some non-profits and charities interested in these support measures. It is on January 13, at 1PM.…
The Federal government has announced on December 16, 2021, that the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program will try to make available 100,000 full-time summer job opportunities for young people. According to the government, this represents a 40% increase from the…
Here are the CRA letters from a number of recent Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. For a number of years, we have been providing the public with copies of CRA revocation…
The League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith and B’nai Brith Foundation District No. 22 were two Canadian registered charities that were revoked as a result of audit by CRA. I requested copies of the documents that are publicly available…
In a recent Toronto Star article entitled “Ontario government making fixes to troubled online business registry” it notes; The Ontario government is taking care of business by cranking repairs of its troubled online corporate registry into overdrive. As first disclosed…
We just launched a new course on fundraising regulation in Canada. Here is a description of the course: Many Canadian charities fundraise. In total fundraising brings in over $20 billion for Canadian charities every year. Through the dedicated work of…
If you are one of the Registered Journalism Organizations and there are currently only 5 RJOs then you may find this guide T1000-2 – Completing Form T1000-1, Registered Journalism Organization Information Return (CRA) helpful for completing your annual filings. Here…