January 18, 2020
Australian Wildfires and Canadian donors
We all see from the media the terrible wildfires in Australia. Some Canadian donors or charities have wanted to assist with the relief and recovery…
January 18, 2020
Universities outside of Canada that are qualified donees and fundraising in Canada
If a University is outside of Canada and on a special list maintained by CRA then that foreign university can issue Canadian "official donation…
January 18, 2020
Recent CRA letters of revocation for Canadian registered charities -2015-2018
Here are the CRA letters from a number of recent Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for…
January 15, 2020
Corporations Canada Changes to Fees + Service Standard Times and improves transparency
Here is our article Corporations Canada Launches Changes to Fees and Service Standard Times and New Express Services Today. There is some very…
January 13, 2020
Upcoming Webinars for the Canadian Charity Law Association
The Canadian Charity Law Association is delivering some upcoming webinars. Registration is free but space is limited. Topics are subject to change.…
January 6, 2020
Ontario government update re: ONCA transition -there will be an update
On December 31, 2019 the Ontario government apparently updated their webpage on ONCA. I know this because the page says "Updated: December 31,…
January 5, 2020
CRA releases application form for qualified Canadian journalism organizations
The CRA on December 20, 2019, put out a press release on their incentives relating to journalism. As well CRA has released the T625 Application for…
December 20, 2019
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2020
Blumbergs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp again on Monday April 20, 2020. An easy enough…
December 18, 2019
Mormon church has US$100 billion dollar fund and questions asked about it.
The Washington Post recently had an article entitled "Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower…
December 9, 2019
Donor Advised Funds can have greater secrecy – it can also be a problem
Donor Advised Funds are registered charities in Canada that allow a donor to donate to the charity but the donor retains the ability to recommend…
December 5, 2019
Church of Atheism of Central Canada v. CRA – atheism is not a religion for Canadian charity purposes
A recent Federal Court of Appeal case Church of Atheism of Central Canada v. Canada (National Revenue) deals with a group promoting atheism who…
November 13, 2019
Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation is for now a qualified donee in Canada
There is a list called "foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada". As the name suggests a group that gets a…
November 13, 2019
CRA terminates some municipalities as qualified donees
I know the title sounds a little harsh but I recently checked a list that the CRA maintains of municipalities that are "qualified donees" or groups…
November 13, 2019
Increase in numbers of organizations in two qualified donee categories
There are a couple of important qualified donee categories that have increased in size - first the "List of municipal or public bodies performing a…
November 13, 2019
The CRA has released an updated 2019 version of its T3010 Registered Charity Information Return
The CRA has released recently the 2019 version C of its T3010 Registered Charity Information Return. The major changes deal with replacing political…
October 28, 2019
ON government access to information disclosure on ONCA – so many pages and so little said
Since February 2019 there has not been any update from the Ontario government about ONCA coming into force. As we have noted before the Ontario…
October 28, 2019
VITREO Brain Trust Philanthropy Podcast on Community Foundations, DAFs and Perpetual Funds
I was recently on a VITREO podcast entitled Episode 31: The Impact of the Community Foundation - How They Have Become Power Players in…
October 25, 2019
Miller v. The Queen, 2019 TCC 204 – the Tax Court of Canada sure can be slow
There was a recent Tax Court of Canada ("TCC") case Miller v. The Queen, 2019 TCC 204. It is not an important or exciting case - it deals with a…
October 23, 2019
Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) In Canada – an online course by Mark Blumberg
We have recently launched another online course entitled "Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) In Canada: Understanding this important and often misunderstood…
October 18, 2019
Interesting article by Press Progress on the True North Centre for Public Policy
Press Progress has written an article entitled Right-Wing Media Outlet Accredited For Leaders’ Debate is Also Registered as a Charity for Immigrants.…
October 15, 2019
CRA Sending Out T3010 Reminders
CRA is now sending out reminders to registered charities to file their T3010s on time. This reminders are going out roughly 3 months before the…
October 13, 2019
Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017
We are pleased to launch our Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017 with information on the Canadian registered charity sector for 2017.…
October 12, 2019
Some government of Canada material on social enterprise, social innovation and social finance
Here are some documents relating to social finance, social investments and social enterprise that have been requested by various people through the…
October 2, 2019
Is employer contribution to employee crowdfunding a taxable benefit?
There is an interesting letter from CRA dealing with "Whether an employer's contribution to an employee's crowdfunding campaign raising funds…