ForestEthics, an environmental group with offices in San Francisco, CA, Bellingham, WA, and Vancouver, BC, is splitting into two parts:
- ForestEthics Advocacy
- ForestEthics Solutions
According to their press release, they are doing this "to strike back against the government’s crackdown on charitable environmental groups".
An examination of the main website of ForestEthics' "Ways To Give" page reveals this:
Section 6.2 of the Canada Revenue Agency's 2003-09-02 policy is well worth a read. There was no mention in the ForestEthics press release whether the cumulative portion of past donations which was used by donors to reduce their taxes will be refunded to the Government of Canada.
h/t Maz2
It seems Dr Fruit-fly was "bullied" into resigning from the David Suzuki Fundation (not a spelling mistake - FUND is the basis of it). So says an "In Brief" article in the April 17, 2012 edition of 24 Hours.
Plzzzzz can the heart and stroke foundation be next..go away with your nanny state activisum and leave my trans fats and salt alone.
Need to start a charitable Monster Truck rally organization to promote cultural awareness of the disappearing indigenous white male.
Discounted gun sales will go towards the organizers.
All donations will be tax deductable.
Well fine.....but they should be audited over the past seven years and the tax receipts for those groups should be voided and the recipients of the receipts should be reassessed.
This is what Suzuki has done. They will now attack the Conservative gov't with their non charity arm. It will be much more difficult to prove the connection between donations and advocacy.
They are not stupid,they are evil.
Canada should abort more of these environmental fetuses and leave them writhing on the cold steel table of government funding cuts!
Cut a worm in half, whaddya get? Two worms.
Oh and I'm SURE they're not going to use one half to surreptitiously fund-raise for the other...
gordinkneehill nails it. These organizations will multiply like a disease
Love this. Their all running like rats in the light of day.
Never mind auditing past transactions these people have figured out some kind of loophole to funnel money from the "solutions" arm to the "advocacy" arm. I hope the CRA figures it out.
This is a good sign...the leftie rats are running for some kind of cover. Apparently they are realizing that the party is close to being over, and that we finally have a government comprised of adults that is not going to allow this sh!t to continue...
I see this as a good sign.. more importantly, they'll piss off revenue Canada auditors for the extra work....
"Notice to our Canadian donors..."
Yeah. Like they have any donors in Canada. Lefties don't give money, who are they trying to kid?
And the charity half of each of these groups will secretly fund the advocacy half so how is anything going to change. At least there is some satisfaction in knowing that we've pissed the greenies off and forced them some discomfort.
Remove "status" from all charities. None of them should be able to give (or get) tax receipts. The good ones, those who actually focus on helping people, like the Sally Ann and other religious agencies will continue to thrive. People who believe in the work done by those agencies will continue to give.
Their supporters give because it's the right thing to do. Not because of any tax benefit.
Remember, churches and other like minded agensies were helping people long before the government decided to shill for votes by pretending to "support' the work they do with tax breaks.
By removing the tax benefit, most of the enviro charities like Dr. Fruitfly's and things like PETA will wither and die.
While were at it, revoke tax breaks for political contributions too.
We're only encouraging them...
Interesting, how these "charities" quickly split their organizations into charitable and advocacy groups with such short notice.
It is as though they were never "charities" in the first place.
The answer to these "charitable" political organizations is: tax `em. Tax `em until they squeak. Then tax some more.
I rarely claim charitable donations for tax purposes. Most of them are collection at church anyway.
All that charity moola could save a lot of polar bears - but I guess its better spent on lawyers and lost causes.
OK so the watermellon groups split into two factions, if the advocacy group donates over 10%, wouldn't that trigger a crs review?
That is how these groups have functioned to date, I can't believe the "eagles" of the CRS aren't up to tjhe job.
I wonder if Suzuki left thinking there might be tax fraud charges laid against his organization?
I would love to see that condesending clown in court.
In yankee land they 501.3 c and 501.4 categories to resolve issues like this.In Canada this will just give the Greens (registered political party) a focused pipeline for cash from the same donors as Suzuki...be careful what you wish for.
That's sorta like the "social services and welfare wing of Hamas" which does good work for the people as you know.
NOW, if CRA is at all consistent, this will be uncermoniously rejected under the rubric of "anti-avoidance rules" as an obviously sham transaction. They could simply DEEM the new wing to be engaged in political work.
CRA loves to DEEM in their favour.