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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes , administers tax law and policy , and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [ 4 ]
A charitable organization in Canada is regulated under the Canadian Income Tax Act through the Charities Directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). There are more than 85,600 registered charities in Canada. [1] The charitable sector employs over 2 million people and accounts for about 7% of the GDP of Canada.
To gain charity status, organizations must first register with the federal Canadian Revenue Agency under the Income Tax Act. [5] To be eligible for charitable tax status, charities need to provide a public benefit, such as poverty relief or education, [6] and they are limited in their business and political activities, including making profit or engaging in partisan behavior. [7]
7: British Columbia, Yukon, and new business numbers. 8: Used exclusively for the BN (Business Number) assigned to business owners and corporations. Due to the limited number of BNs available, new BNs can start with a 7. 9: Temporary resident [5] 0: CRA-assigned individual tax numbers, temporary tax numbers or adoption tax numbers
Provincial and territorial governments provide both non-refundable tax credits and refundable tax credits to taxpayers for certain expenses. They may also apply surtaxes and offer low-income tax reductions. Canada Revenue Agency collects personal income taxes for agreeing provinces/territories and remits the revenues to the respective governments.
The SBD is based on "small business limits" which is currently $500,000. Previously, a "CCPC using the SBD [could] claim the small business tax rate on up to $500,000 of its active business income carried on in Canada", which represented a sizable tax reduction. [10] For almost all provinces and territories, the small-business limit is $500,000.
Rents paid to non-residents are subject to a 25% withholding tax on the “gross rents”, which is required to be withheld and remitted to Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) by the payer (i.e. the Canadian agent of the non-resident, or if there is no agent, the renter of the property) each time rental receipts are paid or credited to the ...
Software meeting CRA certification standards, such as Intuit's Profile [1] or Microsophic Inc.'s Visual Tax. [ 2 ] Must be a professional to qualify, along with passing the CRA screening of new applicants.