AvanTax eForms Features
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Easy to Use and Learn
- Simple, menu-driven approach
- Automatic entry of default information
- Comprehensive user manual and online help
- User guide & Technical support available in both French and English
- Access to free training videos on key features of the software
File Returns Electronically
- CRA and Revenu Québec approved
- File original, amended and cancelled returns
- File returns via Internet file transfer
- Batch file multiple returns for multiple companies in a single XML file (Standard and Enterprise versions)
- Submit the following returns to the CRA: NR4, RRSP, T1204, T215, T2202, T3, T4, T4A, T4A-NR, T4E, T4RIF, T4RSP, T5, T5007, T5008, T5013, T5018 & TFSA
- Submit the following returns to the Revenu Québec: Relevé 1, Relevé 2, Relevé 3, Relevé 5, Relevé 8, Relevé 11, Relevé 15, Relevé 16, Relevé 18, Relevé 22, Relevé 24, Relevé 25, Relevé 27 & Relevé 31
- Read more about e-filing information returns
- Video - Electronic Filing
Data Import and Export (Standard & Enterprise versions)
- Import information slips directly from Excel or CSV files you create.
- Import data from QuickBooks, AccPac and other payroll packages. If your software can create a valid CRA or Revenu Québec XML file, then AvanTax eForms can import it.
- Export slip information in CSV format
- Video - Importing and Exporting
Free Technical Support
- Unlimited, free technical support by phone or e-mail in both French and English
Printing Features
- Print to government-supplied forms or print CRA & Revenu Québec approved facsimile forms to blank paper (see paper requirements for printed returns)
- Returns may be saved as PDF files for easy filing and reprinting
- Forms printed in single or batch format
- Complete flexibility in sequence of reports, minimizing paper changes
- Companies may be grouped and processed together
- Extensive filtering and sorting options
- Video - Data Entry, Forms and Reports
Powerful Editing, Reporting and Adjustment Features
- SIN validity check
- EI insurable earnings can be calculated based on EI deducted
- Identification of CPP, QPP, EI and QPIP overpayments and underpayments
- Details of over/underpayments reported
- Automatic adjustments (controlled by the user) to correct CPP, QPP, EI and PPIP through tax
- Company over-remittances can be credited to a specific T4/Relevé 1
- Complete audit trail for all adjustments
- Adjustments generated by the system can be easily reversed
- Video - Data Entry, Forms and Reports
- Video - Adjusting T4s and Relevé 1 Slips
Other Features
- Names, addresses and SINs (and, optioinally, data) can be carried forward to the next year
- Purge inactive slips carried forward from last year
- Global funtions to easily alter common data across entire database
- Copy an address to every employee's slip for the company
- Password Protection—allows you to grant or deny access to your database(s) on a user by user basis (Standard and Enterprise versions)
- Create and email slips as password protected PDF files (Enterprise version)
- Event viewer shows what was done, when and by which user (Enterprise version)
- Company filing status tracking (Enterprise version)
- T5013 partnership returns and Relevé 15 partnership returns (Standard and Enterprise versions)
- T3 trust returns and Relevé 16 trust returns (Enterprise version)
- Video - Advanced Features
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Technical Support
All versions of eForms include free technical support; both for the duration of your annual user license and for many years beyond. If you have a problem, expert help is only an email or a phone call away. We also provide training videos on every aspect of eForms; the videos are available here.
Email and live chat technical support is available Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM EST, and Saturday as conditions permit.
Telephone technical support is available Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST.
Technical support is available in English and French.
