Today, CBC News had an article, “In appeal to Muslims, Freeland pledges to scrap controversial CRA division“. Freeland is promising that if she becomes Prime Minister she will scrap the Research and Analysis Division (RAD) of the Charities Directorate. Meanwhile,…
Canada announced today the addition of 7 criminal organizations to its list of designated terrorist organizations. Canadian charities want to take even greater precautions not to directly or indirectly support any of these organizations. Although this was a concession to…
I recently saw this article, “Region of Peel files $4M lawsuit alleging a former employee defrauded program meant to prevent homelessness & poverty“. This article emphasizes the importance of having effective internal controls. Here are some really good resources…
The CRA has improved the availability of T3010 data on the Open Government website. You can get T3010 data sets from 2009 – 2022. Also, here is a CRA open data – data dictionary for T3010, which you might find…
The disbursement quota (DQ) is the minimum amount a registered charity is required to spend each year on its own charitable activities, on gifts to qualified donees (for example, other registered charities) or on grants to grantees. The disbursement quota…
Register Here. Trump’s recent announcement of freezes of US foreign aid and today’s freezing of Federal funding for programs in the US is very ominous, to say the least. On November 9, 2024, I wrote an article entitled Will the…
CRA has given a webinar on “Rules for charities making grants to grantees (non-qualified donees)”. Here is the slide deck from CRA Rules for charities making grants to grantees (non-qualified donees).
Canadian charities are not allowed to be involved with supporting a foreign military. Recently, the Charity Commission of England and Wales issued a warning to an English charity on this point. We have blogged previously about the importance of Canadian…
The Charity Commission of England and Wales is conducting a survey on terrorism. The consultation closes on January 31, 2025. Here is information from the Charity Commission: Open consultation Understanding the risks non-profit organisations face from terrorist financing schemes…
The Government of Canada released today draft legislation to extend the 2024 charitable donations deadline to February 28, 2025. The government will introduce the draft legislation in Parliament at some point but at least the draft is available. Finance will…
Yesterday Caitlin Lee and Mark Blumberg delivered a presentation Finance donation extension proposal and its impact on Canadian charities – what do we know – for participants. Here is the slide deck. Looking forward to hearing further information from CRA…
ONCA came into force in October 2021. Ontario non-profits have had over 3 years to bring their articles and by-laws into compliance. Many Ontario non-profits were slow in making the changes and now there seems to be a backlog at…
An article appeared in the Globe and Mail today by Rudy Mezzetta entitled “Prorogued Parliament complicates extension to charitable donation deadline”. In the article, it notes: The federal government’s proposal to extend the charitable donation deadline to Feb. 28…
We have seen many issues raised about the extension of 2024 charitable donations to February 28, 2025. Today, Trudeau announced his resignation and the proroguing of Parliament until March 24, 2025. For simplicity, we will call January 2025 and February…
There are lots of governmental press releases and stories about religious groups engaged in very problematic behaviours. Yes, religious groups do a lot of good, but ignoring the bad actors undercuts the good of all religious groups. I recently noticed…
As we recently noted, most people search the CRA’s Charities Listing and see the name of the registered charity. That is actually the “Account Name” that is appearing on the Charities Listing. There is also a “Legal Name” that CRA…
Happy New Year to everyone. It will be interesting to see how 2025 turns out. Unfortunately, it appears we’re entering into a period of tremendous uncertainty. This is not only because of the incoming US administration/tariffs but also political uncertainty…
We have seen many issues raised about the extension of 2024 donations to February 28, 2025. For simplicity, we will call January 2025 and February 2025 the “extension period”. We have written about our concerns with this proposal in our…
The following 150 corporations are slated for dissolution by Corporations Canada for non-filing of their annual return (Form 4022) for 3 consecutive years. Some of the groups may have subsequently attended to their filings and they may not be facing…
About 10,000 CNCA corporations that have not filed their annual returns in the last 3 years will be dissolved. Here are below some further names of corporations that have been dissolved. We have discussed this topic in multiple previous blogs. …
When you have a wobbly government, you get questionable public policy. The Finance Department has announced that they will be giving an extension for donors to make charitable donations for the 2024 tax year to February 28, 2025. We…
A number of groups, including Imagine Canada, have called for an extension of the normal December 31 deadline for charitable donations because of the postal strike. I am not convinced that this proposal to extend the deadline past Dec…
Most people search the CRA’s Charities Listing and see the name of the registered charity. That is actually the “Account Name” that is appearing on the Charities Listing. There is also a “Legal Name” that CRA has for every charity. …
On December 16, 2024, Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, was supposed to release the “2024 Fall Economic Statement: Boosting innovation to create good jobs, growth and prosperity” (“FES”) but Minister Freeland resigned today and the…