Canada revoking JNF Canada charitable status, JNF says motive antisemitic
JNF suggested that anti-Zionist or antisemitic motives within the ranks of CRA may have influenced the decision.
The Canadian Revenue Agency notified the Jewish National Fund Canada that it was revoking the organization’s charitable status because the government body did find its original 1967 main charitable object unacceptable, the JNF said in a statement and newsletter on Thursday.
JNF Canada national president Nathan Disenhouse and CEO Lance Davis announced in a statement dated Wednesday and published Thursday that they had launched a legal challenge against CRA with the Federal Court of Appeal.
CRA was reportedly making its decision based off of a 2014 Audit, and JNF said that it was unjust that after five issueless audits and accepting the original charitable objective decades ago charitable status was now being revoked.
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Disenhouse and Davis said that CRA had bypassed its usual compliance measures such as education letters, compliance agreements and sanctions before revoking JNF’s status, even refusing to discuss a new objective or compliance agreement.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-812023
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Jewish National Fund is taking the CRA to court over plan to revoke its charitable status
JNF has funded infrastructure projects on Israeli army, air and naval bases
The JNF's filing said the minister first notified the JNF of its intention to revoke its charitable status in 2019. In a media statement released on Thursday, the JNF said it demonstrated a "willingness to work with the CRA" over several years and made changes to its operations "even though it does not agree with the CRA's positions."
The media statement said the minister's decision to proceed with revoking its charitable status "undermines a basic fundamental right for all Canadians."
"Our position is that it is unjust for CRA to revoke a charity because a charitable object that it accepted almost 60 years ago is now no longer considered to be a valid charitable object," Disenhouse said in the statement.
The JNF said it remains open to working with the CRA to find a solution outside the legal process.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jewish-national-fund-cra-revoke-charitable-status-1.7276839
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