Buy AvanTax eForms or Use AvanTax Filing Services?

Decisions, decisions, decisions; lfe is just filled with decisions. And now, on top of them all, you need to make a decision between AvanTax eForms and AvanTax Filing Services.
To make your decision easier, we've prepared the chart below to compare the major features of each product.
But if you'd rather just skip right to the end:
  • choose AvanTax eForms to manage your Canadian tax slips internally, using your own computer and storage systems
  • choose AvanTax Filing Services to securely outsource your entire data processing and submission workflow to our team of experts
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AvanTax eForms / AvanTax Filing Services Features Comparison

Feature
AvanTax eForms
AvanTax Filing Services
Product Type
Windows desktop software
Outsourced filing service
Hosting Environment
Installed on your local computer systems
Hosted on our secure cloud servers
Data Storage & Access
Stored locally on your organization's systems
Uploaded to our Secure Client Portal from any device
Data Permanence
Managed by your organization's backup policies
Permenantly deleted upon project completion
Data Processing
Managed internally by your staff
Handled entirely by our team of experts
Recipient Slip Distribution
Recipient slips distributed by your team
Distributed directly by us (optional)
XML Submission
You submit XML files to CRA and Revenu Québec
We submit XML Files to CRA and Revenu Québec
Form Availability
Dependent on your chosen eForms version
All CRA and Revenu Québec forms included
Advanced Features
Available in the Enterprise version only
Includes all advanced features by default
Best For ...
○ Do-it-yourself teams wanting complete data control
○ Organizations restricted to in-house tax processing
○ Clients capable of processing all forms internally
○ Busy teams needing to offload heavy data processing
○ Teams unfamiliar with Canadian tax filing prcesses
○ Clients processing many thousands of forms