{"id":25475,"date":"2025-01-11T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25475"},"modified":"2025-01-11T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T13:30:00","slug":"finance-committee-calls-on-canadian-government-to-revoke-charity-status-of-religious-orgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/finance-committee-calls-on-canadian-government-to-revoke-charity-status-of-religious-orgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Committee Calls On Canadian Government To Revoke Charity Status Of Religious Orgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) is urging the nation\u2019s minister of finance to reject a recommendation by a House of Commons committee that would remove the charitable status of religious organizations under Canada\u2019s tax laws.<\/p>\n<p>After holding pre-budget consultations with a number of groups in advance of Canada\u2019s 2025 budget, the Standing Committee on Finance in December presented 462\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/documentviewer\/en\/44-1\/FINA\/report-21\/page-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recommendations<\/a>\u00a0for the government to implement. Item 430 recommends that the government \u201cAmend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of \u2018advancement of religion\u2019 as a charitable purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/finance-committee-calls-on-canadian-government-to-revoke-charity-status-of-religious-orgs\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) is urging the nation\u2019s minister of finance to reject a recommendation by a House of Commons committee that would remove the charitable status of religious organizations under Canada\u2019s tax laws. After holding pre-budget consultations with a number of groups in advance of Canada\u2019s 2025 budget, the Standing Committee on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/finance-committee-calls-on-canadian-government-to-revoke-charity-status-of-religious-orgs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finance Committee Calls On Canadian Government To Revoke Charity Status Of Religious Orgs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25476,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions\/25476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}