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By Occasional Contributors | 7 Minutes Read July 21, 2022

Budget Implementation Act passed allowing certain additional charitable partnerships

The Budget Implementation Act No. 1 was recently passed which allows for “(l) enabling registered charities to enter into charitable partnerships with organizations other than qualified donees under certain conditions;”.  There has been a lot of changes and misunderstandings about this change.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Not for Profit / Budget Implementation Act, Canadian charity law, charitable partnerships, global giving, Grantmaking, Internal Controls, Registered charities, transparency Leave a Comment

By Occasional Contributors | 2 Minutes Read August 17, 2021

Grantmaking in Canada can be improved immensely but eliminating structured arrangements is dangerous and a red herring to the real problems with our sector

With respect to a recent bill passed by the Senate, but not the House of Commons, relating to structured arrangements/direction and control, we have prepared a number of blog posts with our concerns about the bill and its ultimate impact.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Administration, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit / BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), Business, Canadian Charities, Canadian charity law, charities, Grantmaking, reasonable person test, structured arrangements, structured arrangments

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read January 7, 2020

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 government is no longer referring to ONCA coming into force in early 2020. A few months ago we put in a freedom of information request on ONCA and the computer company developing the new ONBIS system. We just received the answer to my ATIP request and needless to say it does not answer either of the questions with there being some significant redactions.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Not for Profit / Business Numbers, Canada Non-for-profit Corporations Act, Canadian charity law, information disclosures, ONBIS, ONCA, Ontario Not-for-profit Corporations Act, transparency

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