Is your charity compliant with their receipting, filing and other tax obligations? Check out CRA Charities directorate for some great checklists to assist with compliance.

CHARITY CHECKLISTS

The CRA Charity Directorate provides a number of fairly comprehensive and easy to read checklists relating to various responsibilities associated with operating a registered charity. These can be particularly helpful as a reminder for individuals, practitioners or others who are involved with a charitable organization but do not have a significant amount of experience or knowledge in dealing with them.

Such checklists include: Basic guidelines checklistActivities checklistBooks and records checklistReceipting checklistSpending requirement checklistT3010 checklistLegal status checklistChanges checklistGST/HST checklist, and Terrorism checklist.

For further information see Video Tax News Monthly Tax Update Newsletter, Issue No. 433