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A
- Aboriginal:
- About the Charities Directorate:
- Accountability, political activities
- Accumulation:
- Activities:
- Business activities
- Charitable activities
- Fundraising activities
- Lotteries, bingos, charity casinos, etc. (see Fundraising)
- Outside Canada
- Political activities
- Social
- Activities, changing
- Activities checklist
- Activities, through intermediaries:
- Address, changing
- Address, Charities Directorate (see Contact information)
- Advantage:
- Advantages of registration
- Advocacy (see Political activities, CPS-022)
- Aged:
- Agriculture, CSP-A18
- Amalgamation:
- Amending the T3010 information return
- Animal Welfare, CG-011
- Annual information return:
- Amending the T3010 information return
- Completing Form T3010 (13), Registered charity information return (recorded webinar)
- Completing the Registered charity information return T3010-1 (recorded webinar)
- Consequences of non-filing
- Disbursement quota checklist
- Filing the information return
- Financial statements
- Guide T4033, Completing the Registered Charity Information Return
- How to avoid common mistakes (T3010 checklist)
- Information available to the public
- List of companies authorized to produce customized T3010 returns
- Program areas and field codes
- Registered Charity Basic Information sheet (TF725)
- Registered Charity Information Return Summary
- Annual spending requirement (see Disbursement quota)
- Annulled charities, search
- Annulment
- Anonymous gifts
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals
- Applying for registration:
- Application review process
- Charitable purposes
- Charitable purposes and activities
- Disaster or emergency relief
- Effective date of Registration, CPS-017
- Factors that will prevent an organization from being registered
- Forms and guides
- General Requirements for Charitable Registration, CG-017
- Governing documents
- How to apply for charitable registration
- How to apply for re-registration
- How to Draft Purposes for Charitable Registration, CG-019
- Ineligible individuals, CG-024
- Internal divisions
- Is registration right for you?
- Objections and appeals
- Other organizations that can become registered
- Policies and guidance about applying for registration
- Questions and answers about applying for registration
- Re-registration
- Types of registered charities (designations)
- Arts:
- Assets and liabilities
- Associated charity:
- Audits (see Compliance and audits)
- Authorized representative, changing
- Avoiding common mistakes:
B
- Basic guidelines checklist
- Basic information sheet, registered charity (TF725)
- Basic requirements, political activities
- Benefits of registration (see Advantages of registration)
- Books and records:
- Broadcasting, CSP-B05
- Budget 2014
- Business:
- Bylaws, changing
C
- Calculation, disbursement quota
- Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (NFP Act)
- Canadian amateur athletic associations (see Registered Canadian amateur athletic association (RCAAA))
- Caselaw, CSP-C08
- Cause-related marketing
- Cemeteries, CSP-R17
- Changes:
- Changes requiring approval (see Making requests that require approval)
- Charitable activities
- Charitable activities outside Canada
- Charitable and political activities
- Charitable organization (see Types of registered charities (designations))
- Charitable organizations outside Canada:
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada
- Foreign charities that receive a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada: Summary of recent legislative changes
- Qualified donee: Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada (CG-023)
- Charitable Organizations Outside Canada that Have Received a Gift from Her Majesty in Right of Canada, CG-015 (archived)
- Foreign charities: Requirements for qualified donee status (CPC-030) (archived)
- Charitable purposes (see Purposes)
- Charitable purposes and activities
- Charitable remainder trust, CSP-C02
- Charities Connection (see Newsletters for charities)
- Charities Listings (see List of charities)
- Charities Program Updates (see DG's Corner)
- Checklists for charities:
- Claiming charitable tax credits:
- Client Service (see Contact the Charities Directorate)
- Club, CSP-C17
- Collection, CSP-C26
- Comments:
- Community economic development:
- Complaints or concerns about registered charities
- Compliance and audits
- Audit process for charities
- Bringing charities back into compliance
- Complaints or concerns about registered charities
- Compliance-related news releases
- Court decisions
- Guidelines for applying sanctions
- How we promote compliance
- Non-compliance issues
- Non-compliance issues and how to avoid them (recorded webinar)
- Penalties and suspensions
- Computer-generated receipts
- Confidentiality - Public Information, CG-008
- Consequences of improper receipting
- Consequences of non-filing
- Consequences of not meeting the obligations of registration (non-compliance)
- Consequences of revocation
- Consequences of terminating registration (voluntarily)
- Consolidation (see Amalgamation)
- Constitutions
- Consultation and feedback on policies and guidance
- Contact person, changing
- Contact the Charities Directorate
- Contribution, CSP-C05
- Control of corporation, CSP-C28
- Co-operative, CSP-C18
- Corporate Tax Administration for Ontario (CTAO)
- Correcting or replacing official donation receipts
- Court decisions
- CRA service complaints
- Crown (agent, corporation), CSP-C21
- Crown (federal, provincial), CSP-C22
- Cultural property, CSP-C06
- Customized forms
- Cy-près (gift by will), CSP-C23
D
- Daycare facilities, CPS-003
- De minimis rule (see Split receipting)
- Debt, CSP-D06
- Deceased individuals (see Claiming charitable tax credits)
- Deemed expenditure, CSP-D08
- Deemed fair market value rule
- Definitions (see Glossary)
- Designated gifts
- Designation:
- Determining fair market value of gifts in kind (non-cash gifts)
- Directed gift (glossary definition)
- Director / Trustee, CSP-D10
- Director, trustee, or like official, changing
- Disarmament, CSP-D12
- Disaster fund, CSP-D13
- Disaster or emergency relief:
- Disbursement quota:
- Disbursements, CSP-D04
- Disposition of property, CSP-P19
- Dissolution clause, CSP-D15
- Doctrine, CSP-D16
- Does a registered charity have to issue official donations receipts for gifts it receives?
- Donation receipts (see Issuing receipts)
- Donor information
- Donation tax shelter schemes
- Giving to registered charities 101 (video)
- How can I donate wisely and avoid fraud?
- How do I choose the right charity? (video)
- How to donate wisely - information for donors (recorded webinar)
- Questions and answers about making donations
- What is a gift?
- What types of gifts qualify for charitable tax credits?
- Which organizations can issue official donation receipts?
E
- Ecological, CSP-E05
- Education:
- Educational resources for charities and donors:
- Electronic books and records (see Books and records)
- Eligible donee, CSP-E09
- Employee charity trust, CSP-E07
- Engaging in allowable activities (checklist)
- Environment, CSP-E08
- Ethnocultural:
- Excess corporate holdings:
- Excesses, disbursement quota
- Expenditures, revenue and
F
- Factors that will prevent an organization from being registered
- Fair market value:
- Fairness, CSP-F15
- Federal Budget (see Budget 2014)
- Festival:
- Filing the T3010 information return
- Financial statements:
- Fiscal period-end, requesting a change
- Foreign activities:
- Foreign charities:
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada: Summary of recent legislative changes
- Qualified donee: Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada (CG-023)
- Charitable Organizations Outside Canada that Have Received a Gift from Her Majesty in Right of Canada, CG-015 (archived)
- Foreign charities: Requirements for qualified donee status (CPC-030) (archived)
- Forms and publications for charities
- Fraud:
- Fundraising:
G
- Gift from her Majesty in right of Canada (see Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada)
- Gift in kind:
- Gifts:
- Anonymous gifts
- Anti-avoidance rules and designated gifts
- Claiming gifts for deceased individuals
- Directed gift (glossary definition)
- Donation of shares
- Gift certificates or gift cards
- Gift certificates or gift cards, CG-007
- Gifting and receipting (video)
- Gifting and receipting (recorded webinar)
- Gifts from other registered charities
- Gifts out of Inventory, CPC-018
- Giving to registered charities 101 (video)
- Payment for Participation in a Youth Band or Choir, CPC-019
- Pledges
- Questions and answers about gifting and receipting
- Questions and answers about making donations
- Receiving gifts
- Returning a gift to a donor
- Services
- Services, CPC-017
- Sponsorship
- Supporting political activities
- What is a gift?
- What types of gifts qualify for charitable tax credits?
- Glossary
- Governing documents
- Government information:
- GST/HST
- GST/HST checklist
- Guidance documents (see Policies and guidance)
- Guidelines for applying sanctions
- Guides (see Forms and publications listed by document type)
H
I
- Immigrants, CSP-I05
- Improper receipting, consequences
- Incorporation documents
- Indian bands:
- Ineligible individuals, CG-024
- Information (security), CSP-I11
- Information available to the public (T3010 return)
- Information circulars (see Forms and publications listed by document type)
- Information letters (see Forms and publications listed by document type)
- Information return (see Annual information return)
- Information return summary, registered charity
- Internal divisions
- Interpretation bulletins (see Forms and publications listed by document type)
- Investments:
- Issuing complete and accurate donation receipts (checklist)
- Issuing receipts
L
- Lease:
- Legal name, changing
- Legal status, changing
- Legal status (checklist)
- Liabilities, assets and
- Liability, CSP-L01
- Life insurance policy, CSP-L02
- List of charities and other qualified donees
- List of companies authorized to produce customized T3010 returns
- Loanbacks
- Lobbying (see Political activities, CPS-022)
- Lottery prizes
M
- Maintaining charitable registration (checklist)
- Maintaining the charity's status as a legal entity (checklist)
- Make an informed decision
- Making requests that require approval:
- Media kit
- Mediation, CSP-M03
- Meeting the disbursement quota (checklist)
- Membership fees, CSP-M05
- Merger (see Amalgamation)
- Messages from the Director General (see DG's Corner)
- Mission, Charities Directorate (see Who we are)
- Model purposes
- Municipal and public bodies performing a function of government in Canada
- Municipalities
- My Business Account
N
- Name, legal change
- National Arts Service Organizations
- News releases (compliance)
- Newsletters for charities
- Non-cash gifts:
- Non-compliance issues
- Non-filing, consequences
- Non-profit organization
- Non-qualified investments:
- Non-qualifying security, CG-012
- Not-for-profit Corporations Act
- Notices:
- Number, registration
O
- Objections
- Objects (see Purposes)
- Obligations of registration
- Operating a registered charity:
- Activities
- Annual information return (T3010)
- Annual spending requirement (disbursement quota)
- Books and records
- Checklists for charities
- Compliance and audits
- Definitions
- Forms and publications about operating a charity
- GST/HST
- GST/HST checklist for charities
- Ineligible individuals, CG-024
- Issuing receipts
- Making changes
- Making requests that require approval
- Obligations of registration
- Orientation for new board members (recorded webinar)
- Payroll
- Penalties and suspensions
- Policies and guidance about operating a registered charity
- Provincial and territorial government information for charities
- Questions and answers about operating a registered charity
- Receiving gifts
- Registration number
- Toolbox for directors, officers, and volunteers
- Transition to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (NFP Act)
- Other acceptable activities:
- Other organizations that can become registered
- Other organizations that can issue donation receipts (qualified donees)
- Our mission (see Who we are)
- Our service standards, telephone (see Charities Directorate service standards)
- Our vision (see Who we are)
P
- Pamphlets (see Forms and publications listed by document type)
- Payroll
- Penalized charities, search
- Penalties and suspensions
- Permission to accumulate, requesting
- Phone numbers, changing
- Pledges
- Policies and guidance:
- Political activities
- Poverty, CSP-P03
- Prescribed donee, CSP-P15
- Prescribed universities outside Canada
- Private benevolence, CSP-P09
- Private foundation (see (Types of registered charities (designations))
- Professional association, CSP-P18
- Program areas and field codes
- Provincial and territorial government information for charities
- Provision of information, CSP-I06
- Public amenities, CSP-P20
- Public benefit:
- Public bodies (see Municipal and public bodies performing a function of government in Canada)
- Public foundation (see (Types of registered charities (designations))
- Public policy, CSP-P13
- Publications for charities (see Forms and publications)
- Publications for donors
- Purposes:
Q
- Qualified donees:
- Canadian amateur athletic associations
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada
- Funding Qualified Donees, CPC-014
- Her Majesty in right of Canada, a province, or a territory, and the United Nations and its agencies
- List of qualified donees
- Low-cost housing corporations for the aged
- Municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada
- Municipalities
- National arts service organizations
- Prescribed universities outside Canada
- Qualified donees, CG-010
- Questions and answers:
R
- Racial Equality, CPS-021
- RCAAA (see Registered Canadian amateur athletic association (RCAAA))
- Receipts:
- Cause-related marketing
- Charity's Address, CPC-015
- Computer-Generated Official Donation Receipts, CPS-014
- Computer-generated receipts
- Consequences of improper receipting
- Correcting or replacing official donation receipts
- Deemed fair market value rule
- Determining fair market value of gifts in kind (non-cash gifts)
- Does a registered charity have to issue official donation receipts for gifts it receives?
- Fundraising events, receipting
- Gifting and receipting (video)
- Gifting and receipting (recorded webinar)
- Issuing a Receipt in a Name Other than the Donor's, CPC-010
- Issuing receipts
- Loanbacks
- Non-qualified investments
- Official Donation Receipts by a Newly Registered Charity, CPC-009
- Questions and answers about gifting and receipting
- Receipts (checklist)
- Sample official donation receipts
- Split receipting
- What information must appear on an official donation receipt from a registered charity?
- What you need to know to issue an official donation receipt
- When should a charity issue a receipt?
- Which organizations can issue official donation receipts?
- Receiving gifts
- Recent updates, website (see What's new)
- Recorded webinars
- Records (see Books and records)
- Re-designation, requesting
- Reduction, disbursement quota
- Registered Canadian amateur athletic association (RCAAA)
- Registered Charity Basic Information Sheet (TF725)
- Registered charity information return (see annual information return)
- Registered Charity Information Return Summary
- Registered Pension Plan, CSP-R15
- Registration, applying
- Registration number
- Regulation of charities:
- Rehabilitation, CSP-R16
- Related business:
- Relieving conditions attributable to being aged and charitable registration, CG-026
- Religious Charities - Exemption, CPC-016
- Reporting requirements, political activities
- Representatives involved in political activities
- Requests for information (see How to get information about a charity)
- Requests that require approval (see Making requests that require approval)
- Re-registration
- Research:
- Resolving Problems (see Contact the Charities Directorate)
- Resource manual
- Resources, CSP-R13
- Resources for charities about political activities
- Return, Charities Information (see Annual information return)
- Return - Political, CSP-R08
- Return - Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Association, CSP-R09
- Returning a gift to a donor:
- Revenue and expenditures
- Revocation, CSP-R12
- Revocation notices
- Revocation - Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Association, CSP-R25
- Revocation tax, CSP-R24
- Revoked charities, search
- Revoking registered status:
- Annulment
- Consequences of revocation
- Form T2046, Tax Return Where Registration of a Charity is Revoked
- Guide RC4424, Completing the Tax Return Where Registration of a Charity is Revoked
- Objections and appeals
- Policies and guidance about revocation of registered status
- Re-registration
- Revocation notices
- Revocation tax and the T2046 tax return
- Types of revocation and processes
- RSS feeds
S
- Samples
- Sanctions
- Schemes:
- Scholarship, CSP-S08
- School associations, CSP-S09
- Science, CSP-S10
- Search for charities
- Search for qualified donees
- Search tips for the List of charities
- Self-help:
- Service complaints
- Service standards
- Shares, donating
- Shortfall, disbursement quota
- Small and Rural Charities Initiative (SARC)
- Social activities
- Social activities, CSP-S05
- Speeches by the Director General (see DG's Corner)
- Spending requirement (see Annual spending requirement (disbursement quota))
- Spending requirement checklist
- Split receipting
- Sponsorship
- Sport:
- Sports and Charitable Registration, CPS-027
- See: Registered Canadian amateur athletic association (RCAAA)
- Youth, CG-020
- Stock Exchange - Designated, CG-005
- Substantially all, CSP-S16
- Summary policies, search
- Suspended charities, search
T
- T3010 checklist – how to avoid common mistakes
- Tax credits (see Claiming charitable tax credits)
- Tax shelter:
- Terrorism:
- Third Party Fundraisers, CPC-026
- Titleholding, CSP-T07
- Toolbox for directors, officers, and volunteers
- Trusts:
- Tuition:
- Types of registered charities (designations)
- Types of revocation and processes
U
- Umbrella organizations:
- Undue benefits, CSP-U02
- Union Dues - Payment to a Registered Charity, CPC-008
- Universities (see Prescribed universities outside Canada)
V
- Videos:
- Vision, Charities Directorate (see Who we are)
- Voluntary compliance (see Bringing charities back into compliance)
- Volunteers:
W
- Webcasts (see Recorded webinars)
- Website comments
- What information must appear on an official donation receipt from a registered charity?
- What is a gift?
- What you need to know to issue an official donation receipt
- What's new
- When should a charity issue a receipt?
- Will, CSP-W02
- Winding-up period, CSP-W03
- Withholding tax, CSP-T05
- Women, CSP-W01
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- Date modified:
- 2017-04-27