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Charities in the Waiting Room

November 18, 2019

Most organizations that are pursuing charitable status are incorporated. Part of the requirement for achieving such status is that the corporation is organized to pursue charitable purposes. But that by itself is not enough for charitable registration and so prospective charities must apply to the CRA for registration. The question then arises about the tax […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Adam Aptowitzer, Charitable Status, Charities Directorate, registered charity, tax consequences, waiting for charitable registration

Charities Information Sessions: Take it With a Grain of Salt

September 27, 2019

The Charities Directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency has restarted their in-person educational program for the charitable sector after a being cancelled in 2013 under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The first Charities Information Session was held in Ottawa the morning of May 28th, 2019. We audited the first class to get a feel for whether […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Charities Directorate, Charities Information Sessions, charities legal obligations, CRA Charities Directorate, Lex Klombies

New Digital Services for Charities

June 19, 2019

As of June 1, 2019, the Canada Revenue Agency offers new digital services for charities through their platform, My Business Account (“MyBA”). You, your employee, or your Authorized Representative can do the following tasks online: apply to become a registered charity, a registered Canadian amateur athletic association (RCAAA), or registered national arts service organization (RNASO) […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: CHAMP, Charities Directorate, CRA, digital service, my business account

Santa Baby

December 11, 2017

By:  C. Yvonne Chenier, Q.C.   Santa Baby [1] Santa baby, send a CRA[2] Agent, to me I’ve been an awful good girl, Santa baby Governing my charity right   Santa baby, a Charities Education Program[3], too, so cute Well I’ll wait up for you, dear, Santa baby So hurry down your list tonight, yeah   Think […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Canada Revenue Agency, Charities Directorate, Charities Education Program, charities modernization, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, mandate letters, qualified donees, Yvonne Chenier

CRA and the CHAMP

September 14, 2017

By: C. Yvonne Chenier Those of us, who deal with the Canada Revenue Agency Charities Directorate (the “CRA”) on behalf of clients on a regular basis, have often lamented about the old fashioned ways of communicating and filing that they use, i.e. telephone, fax and snail mail or courier. But similar to how businesses and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: C. Yvonne Chenier, CHAMP, Charities Directorate, charities online portal, Charity Portal, Yvonne Chenier

Head in the Cloud, and Books and Records on the Ground

December 22, 2016

By:    Kara Johnson If someone asked you “where” your cloud storage is, would you know the answer?  The “cloud” is the common term used when data is stored remotely but yet accessible (to your multiple devices) through the internet.  Given that the data is now ‘remote’ we often receive questions from clients as to […]

Filed Under: Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: books and records, Charities Directorate, Charity Records, Cloud, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, Income Tax Act, Kara Johnson, Record Keeping, Registered Office Address

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

Angels We Have Heard On High

December 8, 2015

By C. Yvonne Chenier Last year at this time I was dreaming of sugarplums obviously when I ended my December 2014 article with hope for legislative reform to reduce red tape and help our charity and not for profit clients. Then on budget night in the early months of 2015, I was disappointed as it […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive Tagged With: C. Yvonne Chenier QC, Charities Directorate, CRA

Annulment Offers Second Life to Charity

March 9, 2015

 By Arthur B.C. Drache, CM, QC         Revocation is not the only way that charities can lose their registered status. The following comes from the web site of an organization which was a registered charity called Dying With Dignity: Dying with Dignity Canada (“DWD Canada”)has learned it will lose its registered charity status as the […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive Tagged With: annullment, Arthur B.C. Drache CM QC, charities, Charities Directorate, compliance, CRA, revocation

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