Sallie Saunders Building Better Boards Pty Ltd
6 reviews into the NFP sector over the last 16 years The consistent theme – regulation of the NFP sector could be significantly improved by: the establishment of a single national regulator and the simplification of regulatory and taxation arrangements
Recommendations of the Productivity Commission Report The National Compact Commitment of the Gillard Government
Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector (PMC) Not-for-Profit Sector Reform Council Inter-Departmental Committee on NFP Sector Reform ACNC – Australian Charities and Not-for- Profit Commission (+ Implementation Taskforce) ACNC Advisory Body
ACNC role determine and regulate charities; and administer the statutory definition of charity. promote good governance; ensure compliance with charitable laws; and provide a public information portal through which charities would be required to make certain financial and activity related reports.
A charity is an entity with a charitable purpose, as defined in common law and classified according to the Pemsel case (1891) under the heads of: Relief of poverty; Advancement of education; Advancement of religion; and Other purposes beneficial to the community
Launch date 1 October 2012 Will contain information about and for charities On 1 July 2013 the public information portal will be accessible from the website Aims for a high level of transparency for the sector and visibility for individual charities without a website Charities to update their own information and submit their annual information statements online. The public will be able to search the portal for charity details such as governance structures, purposes and activities
From 1 July 2013 all charities to report basic non-financial information Small charities: past year purpose and who benefits Medium and Large charities: add plans for the next year, staff and numbers Charities can volunteer other financial information in this year
small charities – basic financial and non- financial information about their operations for the previous year via an annual information statement and; medium and large charities: ◦ more detailed financial and non-financial information about their operations for the previous year via an annual information statement; and financial reports (either audited or reviewed for medium charities or audited for large charities
a key part of reducing the regulatory burden and simplifying the interaction of charities with the ACNC and the Government. The Charity Passport will: contain data from a variety of sources including registration details and annual reporting; be confidential and provided only to authorised government agencies; and passed electronically to Commonwealth Government Agencies via the ACNC information portal.
ACNC Implementation Taskforce Newsletters: Topics/PeopleAndSociety/NFP- reform/Newsletters NFP Reform Council direct questions to: