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How Charitable Purposes Can Impact Your Property Taxes

January 20, 2020

Charitable and non-profit entities may receive a range of tax advantages, some of which can potentially be quite significant. One such advantage is a break on property taxes. In Ontario, the Assessment Act provides a full exemption from property tax to various charitable and non-profit outfits, including religious organizations, care homes, child care centres, cemeteries, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Alexandra Tzannidakis, charities, CRA, CRA policy, donation, property tax, taxes

Charity Golf Tournaments and Receipting

April 24, 2017

By:   Arthur Drache With the golf season (finally) getting starting, hundreds of charities across the country are sponsoring golf tournaments, events which highlight social contacts with (one hopes) fun and also a chance to raise money for a good cause. In the recently issued Folio on Split Receipting[1], the CRA deals with the specifics […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Arthur B.C. Drache CM QC, Canada Revenue Agency, charities, charity, Charity Golf Tournament, charity receipts, receipt rules, Split receipting

Reimbursing Volunteer Expenses: Opportunities and Pitfalls

March 20, 2017

By:     Arthur B. C. Drache It is very common that volunteers and board members of charities lay out funds in support of the organization’s activities. It may be to pay for gas while driving clients of the charity to travel and accommodation expenses to attend board meetings away from one’s own city. In […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Arthur B.C. Drache CM QC, charities, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, receipting, reimbursement policy, volunteer expenses, Volunteer Reimbursement

Getting “Giving” is Getting Harder

March 17, 2017

(Declining Donations: What It Means for Charities) By:   Mark S. Anshan (Beggar) “Alms for the poor, alms for the poor…” (Lazar) “Here, Reb Nahum, is one kopek.” (Beggar) “One kopek? Last week you gave me two kopeks.” (Lazar) “I had a bad week.” (Beggar) “So, if you had a bad week, why should I […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: charities, Decline in Donations, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, Mark S. Anshan, Mergers, Reorganizing a Charity

Consultation on Political Activities of Charities

October 18, 2016

By:   Arthur Drache Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier has announced[1] that the CRA will collaborate with the Department of Finance to engage with charities to clarify the rules governing political activities.  The online consultations are now open, and the in-person consultations which will be held in six cities across Canada will follow at a later […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: charities, compliance, CRA, CRA collaboration, CRA policy, Deboisbriand, Kevin McCort, Lebouthillier, Peter Robinson, political activities, rules governing political activities, Shari Austin, Susan Manwaring

Sticking to your Knitting: and other fascinating facts about diapers

October 18, 2016

By:    C. Yvonne Chenier, Q.C. Charitable food banks have been in the news lately.  In Europe, the Government of France passed laws to stop supermarkets from throwing away food and instead making them donate it to charities and food banks.  In California, where there is a sales tax on disposable diapers, a proposed bill […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Alberta Charity, amending purposes, C. Yvonne Chenier, Calgary Food Bank, Calgary Inter - Faith Food Bank Society, changing purposes, Charitable Objects, Charitable Purposes, charities, charity, CRA, Food Bank, mission creep, outdated purposes, Yvonne Chenier

Observing the Impossible Law

September 19, 2016

By: Adam Aptowitzer It is a commonly understood principle of law that for a law to be fair it must be possible for those regulated to obey. For example, nobody would think a law against speeding just if the speed limit changes arbitrarily. In charity law this situation is not only possible but it exists […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: charities, political activites

CRA releases infograph to assist Charities with annual filings

September 7, 2016

By:  Sukhdeep Singh Sembi The continued effort to simplify correspondence to taxpayers from the CRA has recently resulted in the agency publishing an infograph to help charities understand when their annual filings are due. Charities must file the T3010 information return  within six months of its fiscal year-end.  The process is slightly more complicated when […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: annual return, charities, Charities Directorate, CRA, infograph, loss of charitable status, Revocation of Charitable Status, Sukhdeep Singh Sembi, T3010

Israeli Arrests Provide Lessons for Canadian Charities

August 29, 2016

By: Adam Aptowitzer For most Canadians and Canadian Charities the Anti-Terrorism rules are a red herring to be reviewed only in the rarest of situations, if at all.  However, recent events in Israel provide some motivation for Canadian Charities doing work abroad to take a closer look at these rules.  According to international news reports […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: anti - terrorism, charities

Federal Continuance – Consequences of Not Filing

December 8, 2015

By Mark S. Anshan October 17, 2014 was a critical date for federally incorporated not-for-profit corporations and charities.  That was the date by which corporations were required to adopt and file articles of continuance under the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. Failure to have filed for continuance now places those corporations that have not filed and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive Tagged With: charities, CNCA, compliance, continuance, corporate, Mark S. Anshan, NPOs

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