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GST/HST New Residential Rental Property Rebate
Canada Revenue Agency
Auditor’s Guide to the AIR
The Agency for Co-operative Housing
Q&A on the AIR for Auditors
Agency for Co-operative Housing
Protect Your Assets
Your co-op has three main assets, although only one appears on the audited financial statements.
Your money and buildings
Protect your co-op‘s property by buying the right insurance in the right amounts. All housing co-ops need five kinds of insurance: property, loss of housing charges, public
Audit Fees on the Rise for Housing Co-ops
Date
12 May 2025
In recent years, with sustained high inflation affecting many goods and services, we looked at the audit fee data reported by housing co-ops in our portfolio.
Our analysis shows that audit fees are on the rise. Specifically, from 2022 to 2025, the average annual increase for housing co-op audit
Bulletin: GST/HST Rebates: Is Your Housing Co-op at Risk of Losing Them?
CHF Canada
Coverage for Loss of Housing Charges
Date
24 August 2016
Being under-insured puts a co-op at risk. Insurance protects against a misfortune that strikes without warning. In a housing co-op anything can happen, from a fire - several major fires have occurred over the past few years - to a staff person or president gone missing, along with the entire capital
Tip of the Month
Client Compliance
In 2008, 70% of Agency clients met every term of their CMHC operating agreement. Now 80% do. And compliance failures, great and small, are also fewer.