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- Odette case deals with donation of private company shares by estate and CRA denial of donation receipt
There is often confusion in the charity sector about donations of marketable securities vs. donations of private company shares in Canada. There is a huge difference in complexity between the two different transactions, although many charity gift acceptance policies that we review don’t seem to ful … Read more »
- New Ontario Business Registry (OBR) launched today
The Ontario government has launched a new modern Ontario Business Registry system today, October 19, 2021. The new Ontario Business Registry offers simpler and faster access to many services and documents for organizations that are registered, incorporated, or licensed to carry on business in Ontar … Read more »
- The Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) has officially launched
The long-delayed Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (“ONCA”) has officially come into force today, October 19, 2021. ONCA provides a modern legislative framework for Ontario’s not-for-profit corporations and charities. ONCA generally now applies automatically to all existing non-profit c … Read more »
- New forms for new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) released
The new forms for the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) were released on October 18, 2021. ONCA and the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR) will be launched at 9am today. Here are the ONCA forms as of October 18, 2021: 5270E ONCA – Articles of Incorporation 5271E ONCA – Articles of Ame … Read more »
- CharityData.ca updated to new search year 2019 and with some charities reporting additional 2020 information
The last complete data year from the CRA and the T3010 is now 2019. Consequently, we have updated CharityData.ca to be based on the 2019 data when conducting searches or filtering. The website still has material from 2003 -2020 but the search year has changed from 2018 to 2019. We have made numero … Read more »