{"id":28137,"date":"2019-02-12T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:08:35","slug":"t3010-political-activities-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2019\/02\/t3010-political-activities-update\/","title":{"rendered":"T3010 Political Activities Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/charities-giving\/charities\/whats-new.html\">CRA reports<\/a> that the reporting requirements on the T3010 for a charity&#8217;s spending on political activities are no longer relevant.  You do not have to answer those questions.  Here is what CRA says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2019-02-01<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2018, the rules governing the political activities of registered charities changed as a result of new legislation that permits charities to carry on unlimited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/programs\/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra\/federal-government-budgets\/budget-2018-equality-growth-strong-middle-class\/public-policy-advocacy-activities-charities.html\">public policy dialogue and development activities<\/a>\u00a0in furtherance of a stated charitable purpose. Under the new rules, the reporting requirements related to a charity\u2019s spending on political activities are no longer relevant. The Canada Revenue Agency is revising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/forms-publications\/forms\/t3010.html\">Form T3010, Registered Charity Information Return<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/charities-giving\/charities\/whats-new\/ppdda-reporting.html\">Form T2050, Application to Register a Charity under the Income Tax Act<\/a>, and will publish instructions on its webpages soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRA reports that the reporting requirements on the T3010 for a charity&#8217;s spending on political activities are no longer relevant. You do not have to answer those questions. Here is what CRA says: 2019-02-01 In December 2018, the rules governing the political activities of registered charities changed as a result&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2019\/02\/t3010-political-activities-update\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[163,412],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cra","tag-t3010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}