Posts Tagged Canadian

Canadian Prime Rates

I have uploaded a revised listing of my Canadian Prime Rates excel spreadsheet to the internet, for the taking. It is current up to today’s date .. September 19, 2006.

Canadian Prime Rate is currently 6.00% (last changed May 25, 2006)

You can have for the taking … at the following location:

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Canadian Prime Rates

I posted a complete list of prime rates that I had been keeping on my local computer, since January 7, 1986 .. current up to December 7, 2005 .. at the URL .. HERE

I would like to thank Tony C. from Montréal, Qué. who sent me the following email March 21, 2006:

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Canadian Registered Charities - Are They Really Registered?

Here’s a good site to check the validity of Canadian charitable donations made during the year, directly on the Canada Revenue Agency website …

https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/sec/SrchLogin-e?login=true

This site is handy for me checking to see if charities are legit or not. A client insisted that a charitable contribution was made during 2005. After looking at the receipt, I informed my client that it was not an official charitible donation, that although in the good of their hearts the receipt does show a generous contribution made to a company, and it was described as a “donation” .. there was no registered charity number on the receipt. That’s the first giveaway.

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