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Donations and sponsorships

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
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  • June 4 2013

Worldwide businesses are acknowledging their corporate social responsibility in addition to profit making goals. As significant corporate resources

Prescient Foundation v. M.N.R.

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 31 2013

On May 1, 2013 the Federal Court of Appeal delivered its judgement in Prescient Foundation v. M.N.R.: 2013 FCA 120. The judgement was delivered by Mr

Court criticises CRA for delaying assessment of donation shelter donations

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 31 2013

In a recent case, the Federal Court confirmed that the CRA is obliged to examine and assess a tax return with "all due dispatch" even if the taxpayer

Housing corporations for the aged

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 31 2013

The Income Tax Act has special rules relating to corporations that provide low income housing for the aged. While some of these corporations are

Issuing official tax receipts

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 16 2013

Canadian Registered Charities - Do you ever wonder what you can issue a tax receipt for, and in what amount? The CRA is aware of these questions and

NPO update

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 29 2013

Over the past several months, CRA has released two technical interpretations commenting on aspects of the tax exemption for non-profit organizations

Trinity Global Support Foundation loses battle to keep its charitable status for now

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 25 2013

In March 2013, the Canada Revenue Agency agreed to delay revoking the charitable staus of May or Joe Fontana's Trinity Global Support Foundation

The Canada Revenue Agency revokes the registration of marketplace ministries international as a charity

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 2 2013

Effective as of March 16, 2013, the registered charitable status of Marketplace Ministries International, a Scarborough-based charity, has been

First-time donor’s “super credit”

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 22 2013

With the tabling of the 2013 Federal Budget yesterday, the federal government announced the introduction of a temporary "First-time Donor's Super

Information regarding unnamed persons

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 21 2013

The Tax Act now provides that when the CRA wants information held by one person (e.g. a charity) for the purpose of verifying the tax compliance of