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NPO-12 — Charity small supplier — two independent gateways, and the order matters

Current — Verified against the live source. Safe to cite.

Charity small supplier — two independent gateways, and the order matters. A charity is a small supplier if it meets either the $250,000 gross revenue test or the $50,000 taxable supplies test — only one is needed. RC4082: "If your charity is a small supplier under the gross revenue test, you do not have to do this test." So $250,000 is checked first and makes the $50,000 test moot; $50,000 only matters for a charity that fails $250,000. The gross revenue test ignores whether the supplies were taxable. First fiscal year: automatically a small supplier. Second: test year one. Third or later: small supplier if either of the two previous years was $250,000 or less. Registration is mandatory only where the charity fails both tests

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Sources

Record

Anchor ID
NPO-12 (permanent)
Jurisdiction
FED
Section
2.10 Non-profit and charity filings
Verified
2026-08-27 — by a person, against the source
Review cycle
legislative

Changes mentioning NPO-12

DateChange
28 Aug 2026

Mirrored GI-067 and RC4082 and closed the charity net-tax gap. Both are live and uncancelled — record pages checked in English and French, no banner either side. RC4082 is still Rev. 23, so the derived BOS charities file was built from the current edition; there is no Rev. 24 or 25 (rc4082-24e.pdf and rc4082-25e.pdf both 404). Added NPO-09 to NPO-12 covering the 60% net tax calculation, the GST488 election out, designated charities, and the $250,000 gross revenue test. Correction to the derived file's own header: GI-067 is dated June 2015, not May 2015

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