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By Occasional Contributors | 7 Minutes Read April 2, 2020

If your Canadian charity has assets/reserve and you don't have a reserve fund policy you should stop fundraising

CRA in its Fundraising Guidance explains the importance of having a reserve fund policy. By the way this is not “new”. The guidance has been around since 2012.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Not for Profit / assets, charity, fundraising, Registered charities, reserve fund policy

By Adam Gorley | 2 Minutes Read July 21, 2014

The future of insolvency

Industry Canada sought public input on the state and future of Canada's insolvency legislation through early 2014. Interested parties can review the issues in the agency's discussion paper on the statutory review of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.

Article by Adam Gorley / Business, Finance and Accounting / assets, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Canada Business Corporations Act, CCAA prodeedings, commercial insolvency, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, competing interests, copyright, Industry Canada, Insolvency, insolvency legislation, IP rights, patented items, restructuring, transparency

By Drache Aptowitzer LLP | 3 Minutes Read December 10, 2012

Taking matters into your own hands: dissolving before the government does it for you

Readers will know that the new Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act came into effect in 2011, bringing the regulation of not-for-profits into line with modern corporate legislation. This carries with it the onus to apply for continuance under the new Act by October 2014, or be dissolved.

Article by Drache Aptowitzer LLP / Business, Not for Profit / 2014, assets, Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, charitable status, charities, charity and tax law, CNCA, date of assessment, federally-incorporated registered charities, fiduciary duties, individual directors to certain liabilities, Internal Controls, involuntarily-revoked charity, liabilities, liability, regulation of not-for-profits, revocation tax, tax, tax assessment, the nature of bureaucracy, When a corporation is dissolved, wind-up, winding-up of a corporation

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