March 2009
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Avoiding 'Charity' Scams
Tax havens and tax evasion costs governments, including Canada, the US and those in the developing world a substantial amount of revenue. Although it undermines Western governments these tax havens devastate the capacity of many Southern countries to provide basic services to their own people. At the upcoming G20 meeting financial regulation and stopping tax haven secrecy will be at the top of the agenda. If the US loses $100 billion in tax revenue every year from tax havens, then how much does Canada lose every year? Why not take the money currently lost and use it to increase grants and contributions to the Canadian charitable sector?
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Tuberculosis (TB) kills about 1.7 million people every year. The Canadian government has just announced spending about 127 million to fight TB.
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In March 2009 the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC), in partnership with the Wild Rose Foundation, had Angus Reid conduct a poll of Canadians. Despite the global economic crisis, it appears that there is substantial support for various actors including federal and provincial governments, NGOs and others, tackling the issue of global poverty. In the poll they found that 89% of Canadians say they believe “Canada should be addressing global poverty in some way, with three-in-ten (29%) actually placing global poverty as a higher priority than local issues.”
CRA just put out a easy to read and understand list of “Factors that will prevent an organization from being registered as a charity”. Perhaps CRA put out this list because with 4000 new organizations putting in applications every year to become registered charities, some of whom are not understanding what a charity is or restrictions on the activities of a charity, they wanted to make it clearer what will not qualify and hopefully they will receive better applications, or fewer, and this will reduce the backlog. I think however that the list has an even more important purpose.
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April 1st is April Fools Day. There is so much craziness in the Canadian charity sector right now that you can either ignore it, or laugh or cry. I thought that CRA may want to get into the tradition of putting out something funny on April 1st so that we can laugh together instead of crying.
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New corporate non-profit acts
The Canadian parliament is once again considering passing the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. If it is passed it will affect 19,000 Canadian federal corporations that are incorporated under federal law. The Bill is currently in the Industry, Science and Technology Committee.
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For those interested in celebrating National Avoid a Charity Scam Day you might find this interesting.
Here is some statistical information on Charity Scams - Costing Us All A Lot. Just to give some perspective far more funds flow to charity tax avoidance schemes in Canada than to all the money spent by Canadian charities on relieving poverty in the developing world!!
If you are interested in assisting reduce or eliminate extreme poverty and you want more than writing a cheque to fix a symptom of a problem then you might find this note interesting. Various groups have highlighted the importance of tax havens in undermining foreign governments in their development work by being a mechanism by which the wealthy can avoid paying taxes. What does government in Canada provide to us? Schools, hospitals, universities, social safety net, police. Imagine what Canada would look like if we had almost no tax revenue. Within a decade or two there would be no schools, hospital, universities, social safety net, police etc.
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There are over 83,500 Canadian registered charities. If you want to find out about a registered charity the first place to look is the CRA’s website to see if they are registered and their T3010 Registered Charity Information Return at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/chrts-gvng/chrts/menu-eng.html Google also provides often useful information. The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Vancouver Sun have also written interesting articles on the charity sector. Canadiancharitylaw.ca has information on the legal requirements and ethical standards for Canadian registered charities at http://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca. CharityVillage has lots of information on jobs within the charity sector as well as articles on different charity related subjects at http://www.charityvillage.com If you want to donate to any Canadian charity online, even if they do not have a website, you can do so through http://www.canadahelps.org
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The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has recently prepared a report entitled “Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact”. The report is geared towards US foundations but is equally relevant to Canadian foundations. It will no doubt be controversial.
