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Anton Kovalyov in an article on "Spraggett on Chess" website
When I worked at the CFC we had a government auditor come in and spend a day with us, going over everything.
I specifically asked her about this type of situation. Her answer was clear. NO, you cannot accept a donation and issue a tax receipt if the donor wants the money spent in any specific way.
If the CFC had accepted this donation, on the agreement that the money would be spent in any particular way, and then issued a tax receipt, it would have been breaking the law.
My understanding - and I'm no expert in this matter - is that you can specifically donate money to - say - The National Ballet's Dancers' Wellness Program - and get a tax receipt. What you can't do is specifically donate that money to the ballet company with the instruction that it be paid to a particular dancer who can do with it what he/she wishes, and still get a tax receipt.
Basically, the value of the donation should surely have to go to the organization getting it. The ability to issue tax receipts is a privilege not a right! We taxpayers pay to give organizations such a privilege. Getting a tax receipt is always at taxpayer expense.
I'd be the first to say tax money isn't always wisely spent. But that doesn't mean we should encourage abuse of the system.
Our government sponsors so many other sports, including Ringette! I'm not arguing against such sponsorship - just pointing out where the real battle should be for chess.
This is just my own opinion, for what it is worth.
Re: Anton Kovalyov in an article on "Spraggett on Chess" website
When I worked at the CFC we had a government auditor come in and spend a day with us, going over everything.
I specifically asked her about this type of situation. Her answer was clear. NO, you cannot accept a donation and issue a tax receipt if the donor wants the money spent in any specific way.
If the CFC had accepted this donation, on the agreement that the money would be spent in any particular way, and then issued a tax receipt, it would have been breaking the law.
Re: Anton Kovalyov in an article on "Spraggett on Chess" website
I believe I was President at the time. I worked with our Treasurer, Bob Gillanders, to come up with a plan that would permit the issuance of a tax receipt. I can't recall the exact details and I don't believe they were finalized, but we linked it to Anton's appearance at the Canadian Open in Montreal that year. This was not good enough for Kevin, who accused the executive of being racist, inept, etc. As Patrick Kirby suggests, it really makes no sense. It makes one wonder what representations Kevin made to the prospective donor.
This is starting to sound like there is no disagreement over the amount or the decision not to issue a tax receipt. The only thing I'm reading is a defense of why a receipt was not issued.
A case of what happened from one side and the reasons from the other.
Well nobody actually involved in the decision on the CFC side has commented, so it's really just a hypothetical discussion at this point.
That being said, Kevin's article today about corruption in FIDE is a great job. Facts make all the difference, as opposed to innuendo.
I am just about to look for that article. However, I have serious doubts whether the corruption will change much. Kasparov and Leong have had their secret agreement recently published.
I don't know what's worse? Someone who claims to have been abducted by space aliens (Kirsan I.) or someone whose political career has been supported by the WSJ for whom he's been writing lucrative fluff pieces for years. Kaparov had more support outside of Russia than he had among the voters. Ditto for Navalny, who is now the "approved" candidate, after Kasparov abandoned his campaign. He never even managed to get more votes than the Communists.
I take door number 3. The IOC has that perfume of corruption, what with all the truckloads of money they make, ditto probably for FIFA (though their anti-racist campaigns are to be commended) ... so corruption in FIDE? No surprise. Just a big disappointment.
PS. The big Federations that might get together to improve FIDE, AFAIK have been spending a lot of energy crapping over each other. There was that dispute with France, Germany, and Turkey, etc., etc., .
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Tuesday, 28th January, 2014, 05:58 PM.
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Re: Anton Kovalyov in an article on "Spraggett on Chess" website
This is starting to sound like there is no disagreement over the amount or the decision not to issue a tax receipt. The only thing I'm reading is a defense of why a receipt was not issued.
A case of what happened from one side and the reasons from the other.
Re: Anton Kovalyov in an article on "Spraggett on Chess" website
"Creative accounting"? It is called cheating the system. If you think even the worst auditor in the world would not see the $15K in and $15K out to only one person, you are mistaken. That is the type of behaviour that ruins organizations and the descent people who run, volunteer and pay money to them. I feel for Kovalyov, but his living is his problem. Not the problem of the CFC, organizers in Toronto, or anyone else. Send him a cheque of you want, don't send him my money.
That being said, Kevin's article today about corruption in FIDE is a great job. Facts make all the difference, as opposed to innuendo.
I have been involved with other charitable organizations where we have had to reject donations that were individual specific.
A little creative accounting might have solved this problem.
"This donation of $15,000 is to be used for the further development of all junior chess players currently residing in Canada who have reached a level of at least 2600 FIDE rating."
In this way the donation is not 'individual specific' even though Anton would clearly be the only one to benefit at the time.
Spraggett has been 'writing' that huge blockbuster expose of Canadian Chess for YEARS now. What a joke.
I wonder why he even associates himself with Canada or Canadian Chess anymore? "Canada's Top Chess Website" ... P.S. written in Portugal by bitter former Canadian player.
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