eForms News

The AvanTax eForms Production Release, version 2024.105, is now available for purchase and download. The latest eForms release can be downloaded from the downloads page on this website.

What's new in the eForms 2024.105 Production Release:

- All forms and XML output have been updated for the 2024 taxation year

- eForms now has a process oriented Home Page, on which all steps of a standard information return and eForms' most used features can be found

- Toolbars have been redesigned to be more easily understood

- We have improved the email functionality of eForms Enterprise; in addition to standard SMTP configuration, eForms Enterprise now also includes dedicated logins for Gmail and Microsoft hosted email accounts

- We have added the Employee's Second CPP/QPP Contributions (Box 16A & Box 17A) to the T4 form and Cotisation supplémentaire au RRQ (Box B.B) to the RL-1 form

- We have implemented CRA's 2024 revisions to the T619 - Transmittal Record portion of CRA XML files

- We have included in-program links to our QuickHelps Videos. The QuickHelps Videos, alongside our QuickHelps Pages, will answer the most common questions asked by AvanTax eForms users

As a result of systems maintenance, CRA's XML submission service will not be available from 3 am on Monday, December 2, 2024, until 6 am on Monday, January 13, 2025 (Eastern Time).

AvanTax eForms 2024.103 is now available for download. This eForms release resolves an issue which could occur when installing eForms 2024.102 as a Network Administrator installation over an existing eForms 2024.100 Network Administrator installation.

Release 2024.103 makes no other changes to AvanTax eForms, and you do not need to install it if eForms 2024.102 is running without issue.

Items marked "In process" will be included in the eForms Production Release, scheduled for late 2024

1. AvanTax eForms fully incorporates the CPP2 & QPP2 changes that came into effect on January 1, 2024 for both the CRA T4 slip and the Revenu Québec Relevé 1 slip as well as for their respective XML submissions.

2. Programming for the T5103 - Statement of Partnership Income has undergone extensive review and has been fully updated for the 2024 tax season.

3. eForms' 'Start Page' has been replaced by a 'Home Screen' which has been designed with a bright, process oriented layout that should help to make February a little less crazy.

4. The ability to precisely import and precisely update existing slip data has been added to eForms Enterprise. This is how it works: Data exported from eForms into a CSV file will contain a unique ID for each slip. This ID is independent of any user entered data and provides a dedicated matching key to reliably update existing slip data when importing from the revised CSV file.

5. In process: The email recipient slips utility is being completely redesigned to take advantage of the latest security features offered by the Google and Microsoft email servers.

Available in the AvanTax eForms Production Release, scheduled for late 2024

1. The code for the T5103 - Statement of Partnership Income has undergone extensive review and improvement.

2. The email recipient slips utility has been completely redesigned to take advantage of the latest features offered by the Google and Microsoft email servers.

3. We have completely redesigned the eForms Start Page, giving it a new name - 'Home' - and refreshing it with a bright, process oriented layout that should help to make February a little less insane.

All rates and constants have been updated for the 2024 taxation year.

Data may be rolled forward from 2023 AvanTax eForms.

All Forms printing / XML output is in 2023 format, but may be used for filing 2024 returns.