Visit this link to take our online receipting course: Receipting for Canadian Registered Charities
Canadian charities issue approximately $18 billion in receipts each year. According to CRA, most charities do not receipt correctly.
Topics covered in this presentation include:
- When are charities are allowed to issue official donation receipts (“tax receipts”)?
- Top receipting mistakes
- Review of information required on official charitable tax receipts
- What is a gift?
- Is the donation a gift?
- Is there is an obligation to issue receipts?
- Who is the donor?
- What is the eligible amount of gift and how to determine fair market value?
- What is split receipting and how does it affect galas, golf, and other fundraisers?
- How to correct or replace official donation receipts?
- Use of computer generated and e-mail receipts.
- Problems, abuses, and consequences of improper receipts
- CRA’s sample official donation receipts
This free webinar will be presented by Maddy Sawyer, an associate lawyer at the law firm Blumberg Segal LLP in Toronto. Maddy works almost exclusively with charities and non-profit organizations in Canada. Maddy is also a regular contributor to www.CanadianCharityLaw.ca – a Canadian charity law website dedicated to news about the Canadian charitable sector as well as legal and ethical issues for Canadian charities operating in Canada or abroad.