{"id":31827,"date":"2021-05-05T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=31827"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:14:42","slug":"change-to-ontario-annual-information-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2021\/05\/05\/change-to-ontario-annual-information-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Change to Ontario Annual Information Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Charities incorporated in Ontario will no longer file the RC232 Corporations Information Act Annual Return through Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the form will no longer be available for download from Canada.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As of May 7, 2021 the return will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/news\/newsroom\/tax-tips\/tax-tips-2021\/important-changes-corporations-file-ontario-annual-information-returns.html\">no longer be available for download<\/a>.<\/li><li>As of May 15, 2021, the return will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/news\/newsroom\/tax-tips\/tax-tips-2021\/important-changes-corporations-file-ontario-annual-information-returns.html\">no longer be filed through CRA<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ontario has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/ontario-business-registry\">simply noted<\/a> that there will be a change to the <em>Corporations Information Act<\/em> annual return process and that the government will update its webpage as more information is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should be good news for charities incorporated in Ontario!  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