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- Apply to become a registered charity
- Compliance for qualified donees
- Fundraising activities by registered charities
- general
- Accumulation of property by a public foundation
- Activities
- Advancement of education
- Advancement of education and charitable registration
- Advising the Charities Directorate of changes to your registered charity’s information
- Agriculture
- Annual spending requirement (disbursement quota)
- Annulment of charitable registration
- Applicants assisting ethnocultural communities
- Application for registration
- Application for relief
- Application review process
- Apply for qualified donee status
- Apply for re-registration
- ARCHIVED - Policy Commentary
- Arts activities and charitable registration
- Assessing and reducing terrorist risks to charities
- Assisting immigrants
- Assisting people affected by the conflict in Syria
- Associated status for unrelated charities
- Attendance at a political fundraising dinner
- Basic guidelines
- Benefits to Aboriginal peoples of Canada
- Bequest
- Books and records
- Bringing charities back into compliance
- Broadcasting
- Business activity
- Canada-U.S. Income Tax Convention (1980)
- Canadian Bar Association's National Charity Law Symposium
- Canadian registered charities carrying on activities outside Canada
- Capital fund
- Case law
- CBA Charity Law Symposium – May 23, 2014
- CBA Charity Law Symposium – May 29, 2015
- Cemeteries
- Changes to business numbers for all internal divisions
- Charitable Organizations Outside Canada that Have Received a Gift from Her Majesty in Right of Canada
- Charitable purposes
- Charitable purposes and activities
- Charitable purposes and activities that benefit youth
- Charitable remainder trust
- Charitable work and ethnocultural groups – Information on registering as a charity
- Charities and public policy advocacy
- Charities Directorate service standards
- Charities Education Program
- Charities information sessions and webinars
- Charities IT Modernization Project (CHAMP)
- Charities Program Update - 2013
- Charities Program Update - 2014
- Charities Program Update – 2015
- Charities-related forms and publications by topic and charity type
- Charities-related forms and publications listed by document type
- Charities-related forms and publications listed by name
- Charities-related forms and publications listed by number
- Charity law
- Charity's address
- Checklist for charities on avoiding terrorist abuse
- Checklist: How to protect your charity against terrorist abuse
- Clarifying the rules governing charities’ political activities: consultation process 2016 to 2017
- Club
- Co-operative
- Collection
- Community economic development activities and charitable registration
- Compliance within the charitable sector
- Compliance-related news releases
- Computer-generated official donation receipts
- Confidentiality – Public information
- Consequences of revocation
- Contribution to a political party
- Control of corporation
- Court decisions
- Crown (agent, corporation)
- Crown (federal, provincial)
- Cultural property
- Cy-près (Gift by will)
- Daycare facilities
- Debt
- Deemed expenditure
- DG's Corner
- Direct designation
- Directors/Trustees
- Disaster or emergency relief
- Disaster or emergency relief
- Disaster relief
- Disbursements
- Disposition of property
- Dissolution clause
- Distinction between self-help and members' groups
- Donation of gift certificates or gift cards
- Donation schemes
- Ecologically sensitive land
- Effective date of registration
- Eligible donee
- Employee charity trust
- Engaging in allowable activities
- Environment
- Expenses incurred by volunteers
- Factors that will prevent an organization from being registered as a charity
- Fair market value of donated item and taxes
- Fairness
- Federal/Provincial/Territorial Network of Charity Regulators
- Feedback on policies and guidance
- Festival
- Festivals and the promotion of tourism
- Filing a Registered Charity Information Return (T3010)
- Financial statements
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada: Summary of recent legislative changes
- Framework to safeguard the charitable sector
- Funding qualified donees
- Fundraising by registered charities
- General requirements for charitable registration
- Gifting and receipting
- Gifts of services
- Gifts out of inventory
- Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) checklist for charities
- Governing documents
- Government Response to the Report of the Consultation Panel on the Political Activities of Charities
- Group insurance rates for registered charities
- Guidelines for applying sanctions
- Guidelines for registering a charity: Meeting the public benefit test
- Guidelines for the registration of umbrella organizations and title holding organizations
- Head bodies and their internal divisions
- Heritage society
- Historical site, items
- Housing and charitable registration
- Housing for seniors (life-tenancy agreement)
- How to draft purposes for charitable registration
- Important information for registered charities incorporated, continued, or amalgamated in Ontario and subject to the Ontario Corporations Act
- Index of guidance products and policies
- Ineligible individuals
- Infographic text: Audit process for charities
- Infographic: Audit process for charities
- Information (security)
- Information available to the public from a registered charity’s T3010 return
- Internal divisions of Canadian registered charities
- Is registration right for you?
- Issuing a receipt in a name other than the donor's
- Issuing complete and accurate donation receipts
- Issuing receipts
- Keeping adequate books and records
- Leasing property
- Liability
- Life insurance policy
- Maintaining the charity's status as a legal entity
- Making a change to your organization
- Making requests that require approval
- Mediation
- Meeting the disbursement quota
- Meeting the disbursement quota - prior to Budget 2010
- Membership fees
- Message from the Director General
- Message from the Director General
- Message from the Director General
- National Charity Law Symposium
- Newsletters for charities
- Non-compliance issues
- Non-profit organization
- Non-qualified investment – Tax liability
- Non-qualifying security
- Official donation receipts by a newly registered charity
- Other organizations that can become registered
- Out-of-pocket expenses
- Payment for participation in a youth band or choir
- Penalties and suspensions
- Personal information of directors, trustees and like officials
- Policies and guidance about applying for registration
- Policies and guidance about operating a registered charity
- Policies and guidance about revocation of registered status
- Policy institutes
- Political activities
- Political party's use of charity's premises
- Portion of a 10-year gift
- Poverty
- PPDDA changes to T3010 reporting requirements
- PPDDA changes to the application form
- Prescribed donee
- Private benefit
- Private foundations and investment portfolios
- Professional association
- Program areas and field codes
- Promoting the efficiency of Canadian armed forces and police services
- Promoting the efficiency of Canadian armed forces and police services
- Promotion of animal welfare and charitable registration
- Promotion of health and charitable registration
- Promotion of volunteerism
- Providing fraudulent information
- Provision of information
- Public amenities
- Public benefit
- Public policy
- Public policy dialogue and development activities by charities
- Publishing a magazine
- Purposes beneficial to community
- Qualified donee: Foreign charities that have received a gift from His Majesty in right of Canada
- Qualified donee: Low-cost housing corporation for the aged
- Qualified donees
- Qualified donees – Consequences of returning donated property
- Questions and answers about applying for registration
- Questions and answers about gifting and receipting
- Questions and answers about operating a registered charity
- RCAAAs: Receipts-issuing policy
- Re-registration
- Receiving gifts
- Registered Canadian amateur athletic association
- Registered charities making grants to non-qualified donees
- Registered charities making improvements to property leased from others
- Registered Charity Basic Information sheet (TF725)
- Registered pension plan
- Registering charities that promote racial equality
- Registration number
- Registration of arts festivals
- Registration of Canadian amateur athletic associations
- Related business and public foundations
- Relief of poverty and charitable registration
- Relieving conditions attributable to being aged and charitable registration
- Religion
- Religious charities - Exemption
- Report on the Charities Program
- Reporting terrorism or charity non-compliance
- Request publicly available data from the List of charities (Charities Listings)
- Research as a charitable activity
- Resources
- Resources for charities about political activities
- Return
- Return - political
- Revocation
- Revocation
- Revocation
- Revocation notices
- Revocation tax and the T2046 tax return
- Revoked Canadian charity listed under the Criminal Code as terrorist entity
- Sample financial statements
- Scholarships
- School associations
- School councils
- Self-help groups
- Small and Rural Charities Initiative (SARC)
- Social activities
- Social rehabilitation
- Sports and charitable registration
- Statement of assets and liabilities
- Statement of revenue and expenditures
- Stock exchange – Designated
- Submit your application
- Substantially all
- T3010 charity return – After you file
- T3010 charity return – Before you file
- T3010 charity return – Filing information
- T3010 charity return – Overview
- T3010 checklist – how to avoid common mistakes when filing your return
- Tax shelter
- Technical Issues Working Group
- The audit process for charities
- The Canada Revenue Agency's online consultation on charities' political activities
- Third party fundraisers
- Titleholding
- Toolbox for directors, officers, and volunteers
- Transition to Ontario's Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010
- Transition to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (NFP Act)
- Transition to the new B.C. Societies Act
- Treatment of enduring property for purposes of the disbursement quota
- Trust document
- Types of registered charities (designations)
- Types of revocation
- Undue benefits
- Union dues - Payment to a registered charity
- Upholding human rights and charitable registration
- Using an intermediary to carry out a charity's activities within Canada
- Versions of the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return
- Video series: Gifting and receipting
- What is a related business?
- What we heard: 2019 online consultation
- Who we are
- Will
- Winding-up period
- Withholding tax
- Women