New Tax Receipt Policies

AS OF JANUARY 1, 2024: While charities are under no legal obligation to issue tax receipts, we are pleased to do so for a minimum $100.00 cumulative yearly donation if we receive all the required information referenced above for each of your donations. If we do not receive this information at the time of your donation, it will be assumed that you do not require a tax receipt.

Please note that CanadaHelps issues tax receipts immediately to each Canadian donor regardless of the amount of donation; we urge you to use this convenient donation platform as it saves the monastery time and money in volunteer efforts and bookkeeping expenditures. You will not receive an additional tax receipt from Birken if you use CanadaHelps.

If you donate electronically by wire transfer or through Interac email transfer (use our bookkeeper@birken.ca email address for your Interac transactions), please be sure to provide us with the required information mentioned above with each donation – you can email this information to bookkeeper@birken.ca.

Birken will issue one cumulative tax receipt per donor for the calendar year. Tax receipts will be issued electronically by email no later than February 28th of the calendar year that follows the year of the donation. We will no longer provide paper tax receipts. Please note that we cannot issue tax receipts retroactively for donations made during previous calendar years.

Throughout the year, there are many individuals who donate anonymously or request not to receive tax receipts for their donations. The Birken community expresses its gratitude to these individuals for their generosity and rejoices in their good merit.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the issuance of tax receipts, please email bookkeeper@birken.ca. To make a donation to Birken, please see our Support page for the many ways you can give. Anumodana!