September 02, 2010
Here are some of the upcoming charity law seminars I will be presenting through the Charity Law Information Program. More dates and details will be announced. For obvious budgetary reasons I can only visit some places every 2-3 years, so check the list and avoid disappointment!! http://www.capacitybuilders.ca/clip/clip-training-events.php A full day session is $40 - great value for charities, their staff and boards of directors
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September 01, 2010
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Here is information on some upcoming presentations I am doing with the Certified Management Accountants of Ontario on Top Compliance Issues for Canadian Registered Charities and their Directors in the GTA including Toronto, Mississauga, Markam, in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, in London, and in Ottawa.
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August 31, 2010
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It is good to see that the problem of abusive charity gifting tax shelter in 2009 has been further reduced. Here are the stats from CRA:
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August 29, 2010
One of the categories of qualified donees under proposed legislation is a municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada. Here is a CRA letter on whether an Indian band is a public body performing a function of government as is used in paragraph 149(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act? It also discusses whether a subsidiary is tax exempt.
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August 25, 2010
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A bill to impose a salary cap on Canadian registered charties has passed 2nd reading and will shortly be reviewed by the Finance committee of the House of Commons. As they say there is usually one simple solution to a complex problem that is totally wrong. To have a single cap for all Canadian charities means that Canadian hospitals, research institutions, and universities will not even have a chance of being able to compete with other similar institutions around the world. While it sounds appealing to cap salaries at $250,000 it is actually when you drill down to the details a very problematic piece of legislation. You see it is not about what charities want to pay for things - every charity would ideally want everything for free. Charities need to able to recruit people to accomplish their mission. Charities should never pay more than they need to. They should never pay more than fair market compensation. But you cannot just put a one-size fits all number on what it is? When there are only a few neurosurgeons you cannot pay what you want - you need to pay something related to the going rate for neurosurgeons or be prepared to do without them. If you are a small community in the North and you want to have a specialist in your community you may have to pay that person more than a comparable hospital in Toronto or Chicago.
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Posted by Mark Blumberg on 08/23 |
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I will be doing a number of programs for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) including on Top Compliance Issues - Registered Charities, Directors, CAs; Charity Fundraising and Receipting Rules and Recent Legal Developments Affecting Registered Charities.
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August 15, 2010
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I will be one of the presenters at an upcoming PFC program called Global Giving - Possibilities and Pitfalls.
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August 09, 2010
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Tomorrow, the Humanitarian Coalition will launch an appeal for flooded Pakistan. Here is a link to their website http://tiny.cc/rr9x7 For those who have not heard of the Humanitarian Coalition it is “a network of Canadian NGOs determined to unite in cases of humanitarian crises. Four of Canada’s leading aid organizations have founded the Humanitarian Coalition: CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada.”
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Posted by Mark Blumberg on 08/09 |
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Here is the segment (2.5 minutes) with Sean O’Shea, a consumer reporter for Global TV. Mark Blumberg, moi, is being interviewed along with much more serious, important, and influential characters such as Marcel Lauzière of Imagine Canada http://www.globaltoronto.com/Video+Donor+beware/3378491/story.html
