eForms News

AvanTax eForms has been refreshed for the 2025 tax season with current rates, smarter tools, exciting new features and a more intuitive experience.

All values have been updated for the 2025 tax year

Easily roll data forward from AvanTax 2024 into AvanTax eForms 2025

RL-1.T Support allows you to prepare the temporary Relevé 1 slip and summary for 2025 end-of-business returns

All other forms & XML output remain in their 2024 format, but can be used for 2025 end-of-business returns

Note that electronic filing of the RL-31 is disabled in this version of AvanTax eForms pending government approval

Redesigned Email - Email recipient slips is now more intuitive and easier to use

Flexible Signatures - Print signatures on the forms exactly where they're needed

Improved Data Validation - The data validation process now produces a redesigned report that’s easier to read and better organized, helping you quickly understand and review your data

File-Wide Search - Quickly find recipients across all companies and slip types, making it easier to locate and manage specific slips without scrolling through vast amounts of data

Guided Tours - Step-by-step walkthroughs to help those new to eForms - or those who haven't used it for a while - to get oriented quickly. The tours provide clear, step-by-step introductions for producing tax slip returns, so you can feel confident using the system

Company Management Console - Create, transfer, merge, copy & delete companies from a single location

Online User Guides - The English and French user guides have been completely rewritten and moved online; the new guides are easier to navigate, clearer to follow, and designed to help you find answers quickly

All rates and constants have been updated for the 2025 taxation year.

Data may be rolled forward from 2024 AvanTax eForms.

All Forms printing / XML output is in 2024 format, but may be used for filing 2025 returns.

The import for Part XIX slip data erroneously imported blank controlling person names in the case where the account is for an entity, and the Organization Account Holder Type Code is set to ‘CRS103’. AvanTax eForms 2024.114 corrects this issue.

The email recipient forms function has been redesigned to be more intuitive and easier to use.

For several weeks we have helped you to deal with multiple issues introduced by recent changes to CRA's XML submission site. During this time, we have also repeatedly asked CRA for an extension to their filing deadline to make up for the delays caused by these changes.

Today, we are happy to report that CRA has extended the submission deadline from February 28, 2025 to March 7, 2025 for all returns having a submission deadline of February 28, 2025.

On January 15, 2025, CRA's updated XML submission site went live. Since that date, many clients have contacted us to report various issues when submitting their XML files to CRA. These issues concern the CRA and cannot be resolved by updating eForms, we list them here to make you aware of some problems you may run into:

♦ Previous year's XML submissions to CRA will be rejected unless they are in the 2024 XML format.

♦ Transmitter names with an ampersand may be rejected for including an invalid character.

♦ The CRA XML schema allows the Transmitter Account Number in Transmitter Setup to be a BN9, BN15, NR4 or Trust account number, and the CRA submission site requires that this number match the log in account number. Since the CRA site accepts BN15 only, log in will fail if Transmitter Setup includes a BN9, NR4 or Trust account number.

♦ The CRA XML schema allows the option of using a Transmitter Account Number or a RepID Number in Transmitter Setup. Log in will fail if the Transmitter Account Number is blank.

♦ Several clients have informed us that CRA XML submissions will be rejected if they contain abbreviated numbered street names, such as '17th Ave.'.

♦ The CRA XML submission site allows XML uploads to be continued, despite receiving pre-processing validation notices.