The description reads: Do not check the box on the T3 unless the description below from CRA applies to you. If this does not apply to me why is there an amount in that box. Furthermore, I have entered it every year.
The purpose of this publication is to provide information regarding the application of Section 143 of the Income Tax Act - Communal Organizations. Generally, a communal organization has members that live and work together; operates a business for the purpose of supporting its members; and its members do not own property in their own right as a matter of religious conviction