While a totally paperless organization is likely out of reach, government agencies are increasingly encouraging charities to use digital services, forms and communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Corporations Canada will soon remove a number of PDF forms<\/a> from its website. This coincides with new service fees for not-for-profit corporations and business corporations. The fee changes are meant to encourage use of digital service options, and many fees for online services will be reduced or eliminated<\/a>. The following PDF forms will be taken down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form 4001 \u2013 Articles of\nIncorporation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form 4003 \u2013 Change of Registered\nOffice Address<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form 4004 \u2013 Articles of Amendment<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form 4006 \u2013 Changes Regarding\nDirectors<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form 4022 \u2013 Annual Return <\/p>\n\n\n\n These changes take effect January 15<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canada Revenue Agency is also making changes to its digital services in how representatives are authorized<\/a>. Representatives can access a variety of services depending on the level of authorization the charity has consented to. See the list of services for registered charities (RR) here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two main changes. The first aligns the process for\nindividual tax accounts with the existing process for business accounts, which\nis done online through Represent\na Client<\/a>. This service\nallows<\/a> individuals and organizations, including charities, to permit, for\nexample, an accountant, a lawyer, a payroll service, an employee, to have\naccess to its tax information and services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second change streamlines existing paper applications\nfor offline<\/em> access to tax account\ninformation. The current T1013<\/a>\n(authorizing or cancelling a representative for individuals), RC59<\/a>\n(business consent for offline access) and NR95<\/a>\n(non-residence tax account) will be combined into a single form, AUT-01\nAuthorize a Representative for Access by Phone and Mail. If representatives\nsubmit an AUT-01 it will cancel existing online access (although this won\u2019t\napply to non-residents, since they do not have access to online services). T1\nand T2 software can be used to electronically request online access and will\nprompt a new signature page. This page must be signed by the client (i.e. the\ncharity) and retained by the representative for six years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These changes take effect February 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you haven’t already moved your charity away from paper and toward digital, a great starting pointing is Going Paperless: An Introduction to Digital Document Storage for Charities<\/a> paired with this blog<\/a>, which includes more recent information about cloud storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While a totally paperless organization is likely out of reach, government agencies are increasingly encouraging charities to use digital services, forms and communication. Corporations Canada will soon remove a number of PDF forms from its website. This coincides with new service fees for not-for-profit corporations and business corporations. The fee… 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":[159,137],"tags":[428,427,163],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity-law-and-policy","category-uncategorized","tag-cloud-storage","tag-corporations-canada","tag-cra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690","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=28690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28690"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}