Here are the CRA letters from a number of recent Canadian registered charity revocations, annulments and penalties. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration or the imposition of penalties.
For a number of years we have been providing the public with copies of CRA revocation letters. These letters set out the CRA reasons for revocation of charitable status when CRA is alleging cause or that the revocation was as a result of an audit and non-compliance (as opposed to voluntary revocation or failure to file).
CRA is only allowed to release very limited information on a deregistered charity such as these letters, and only after deregistration. CRA is generally not allowed to release letters from the charity to CRA, although you can sometimes obtain those documents by requesting them from the former charity. If anyone has further information on these charities let me know. Because CRA alleges in a letter a particular set of facts does not make it necessarily correct. Many of these revocations have not been tested in court.
There have been about 65 or so cases in the Federal Court of Appeal with charities challenging the CRA revocations (or refusal to register a charity). Although sometimes the court will disagree with some of the grounds I am not aware of any cases in the last decade of the Federal Court of Appeal overturning the revocations of CRA.
Why should people care about revocations of charities? The ability of CRA to revoke the registration of a registered charity can have significant impact on a charity and the charitable sector is an important part of our society and economy. Why CRA would revoke a charity and explanations given are important. It helps charities understand compliance issues. It also allows the public to understand whether CRA is acting reasonably in the matter.
Aaron and Susan Liberman Foundation (penalty)
African Computer and Technology Literacy Awareness Program (ACTLAP) Inc.
British Columbia Pharmaceutical Benevolent Society
Canadian Friends of Pearl Children
Cancer Survivors Fund of Canada
Canadian Overseas Health and Education Fund
Christian Economic Assistance Foundation
Credit Counselling Services of Atlantic Canada Inc.
Crossroads Christian Fellowship
Ecotecture Centre for Ecological Art and Architecture (Part II)
Fountains of Life Spanish Pentecostal Church
Friends and Skills Connection Centre
Gitta Nishuma Foundation (penalty)
Interior Alzheimer Support Society
International Fellowship Mission
Jesus of Bethlehem Worship Centre
Millennium Educational Research Charitable Foundation
Missionary Church of St Francis of Assisi name change from Pastoral Care Mission Services
Missions Ste-Croix (penalty)
R.A Whyte World Deliverance Ministry Inc.
The Barbara and David Zukor Charitable Foundation of Hampstead
The Bosco Society for Disturbed Adolescents
The Hervey Foundation for Cats
The Living Word Christian Fellowship Int’l
Marketplace Ministries International
National Wild Turkey Federation – Canada
The Life Centre Word of Faith Ministries Inc
The Voice of the Cerebral Palsied of Greater Vancouver
The World Job and Food Bank Inc
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