Short answer No! The six-year retention requirement means that you can destroy only that information that you have kept six years from the end of the taxation year to which the records relate. Long answer Each year you can destroy the records that reach six years of shelf life. This year you can destroy the records that are six years old. Next year you can destroy another batch of six-year-old records. Of course, this only refers to certain records, for example, books and records, together with the accounts and vouchers, containing the summaries of the year-to-year transactions of the charity financial statements invoices and vouchers completed T3010 forms More… For the Canada Revenue Agency’s complete table of retention requirements, see www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/charitiesnews-26/charitiesnews26-01-e.html