The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) deregistered at least eight charities after misplacing the annual filings they submitted, which prevented those organizations from being able to issue charitable tax receipts to donors, according to a report.
“The notice of intention to revoke sent to the charity listed because it had not met the filing requirement of the Income Tax Act was published in error,” said the CRA in a statement obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
While the agency did not disclose the total number of groups that were mistakenly deregistered due to this error, it’s known that all of the charities affected had filed their annual tax returns by paper, and eight are known to have been deregistered for as long as 11 months….