I was really surprised to find out that charities are NOT required to give you a tax receipt, no matter what the amount of the donation is.
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But Canadian Tire should at least be up-front about it, and say, "Would you like to donate to our charity? Canadian Tire won't give you a tax receipt, but we'll tell CRA that we donated the money, so that |WE get a tax credit for YOUR donation".
It'd be great if CRA required charities to issue receipts to the actual donators, and required people to sign over their donation to a third part (the way they do for tuition transfer).
In the meantime, beware of this - it's yet another scam that Crappy Tire will try to pull on Canadian consumers!
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