About AvanTax Filing Services
We've been working with Canada Revenue Agency & Revenu Québec tax information slips since 1978, expanding into outsourced tax slip processing in 2012. We annually create and upload hundreds of XML files, and distribute (mail, email & secure PDF) hundreds of thousands of tax slips for organizations of every description, anywhere in the world.
Whether you're a multi-national, a non-profit or the local mom-and-pop, we can help you file your tax returns.
Offered by ELM Computer Systems (developers of AvanTax eForms tax slip software, in use across North America), AvanTax Filing Services provides safe, secure and reliable processing of your Canadian tax information slips; including:
- Preparation CRA & RQ tax slips
- Distribution of recipient slips
- Creation & submission of XML files
- A friendly and professional team
From multi-national firms with tens of thousands of recipients to shops with two or three employees, if you're located in Canada, or have Canadian business operations, we offer the very best in outsourced Canadian tax slip preparation services.
If you're looking for an alternative to Web Forms that can easliy handle a large volume of data, you've come to the right place. But if you prefer to do your tax slip processing in-house, we invite you to take a look at AvanTax eForms, the best desktop tax slip software around, with the friendliest support team that we know of.
There are many steps involved in preparing and submitting your XML tax returns to CRA & RQ; and in distributing the tax slips to their recipients. AvanTax Filing Services does them all; all you need to do is order the services you want and upload the data you want us to process, we'll take care of the rest.
Here's how AvanTax Filing Services works:
- You order our services at our Secure Online Portal; contact us to register or reset your account
- You upload your data to private storage in your portal account
- We import your data into our system and validate it against the CRA/RQ XML schemas
- We prepare preview reports for your review
- We continue processing only on your approval
- We prepare & submit the XML return to CRA/RQ on your behalf
- We can also:
- Print & mail recipient slips
- Email password protected recipient slips
- Prepare recipient slips for your corporate portal
- We prepare a PDF of recipient slips for you to distribute
- We provide final reports for your records
- We provide a data pack of all the work we've done
- We delete your data from our servers upon job completion
You know those phone systems that say "Your call is very important to us, please hold ..."? We won't do that. Ever.
You'll never be 'just another invoice' with us. We know that the heart and soul of your organization are the people who show up each day and contribute to its success. You're just as important to our success. We'll listen to you and work with you to ensure that your Canadian tax returns are filed correctly, securely and on time.
Oursourcing your tax slip processing to AvanTax Filing Services compares very favourably in terms of time and expense to processing tax information slips in-house.
You'll save time and money when AFS handles your tax data processing, and your Human Resources team will have less stress (and more reason to smile).
- We process in large volumes, which can result in reduced processing, printing and postage costs, which we can pass on to our clients.
- We have decades of experience in Canadian tax slip processing, which helps us to get the job done correctly and efficiently.
- We are your single source vendor for complete tax slip service!
- We upload your XML return to CRA & RQ
- We provide final reports for your records
- We amend returns created by other services
- We can also distribute slips to their recipients:
- Paper slips & forms
- Secure electronic forms
- PDF files for coprorate portals
Why not give yourself a break and let us do the same for you. We like what we do and we're very good at it.
AvanTax Filing Services processes the Canada Revenue Agency & Revenu Québec tax informaiton slips, summaries and forms listed below; and we work closely with CRA & RQ to ensure that all forms are up-to-date and in compliance with current legislation.
We prepare & upload XML returns for each form listed below, and provide a PDF of all recipient slips for internal delivery. We can also print & mail slips or create secure PDFs to deliver by email or distribute over a corporate portal.
We encourage you to contact us if the form you need isn't listed here, we'd love to discuss the possibility of adding it.
- AGR-1 - Statement of Farm-Support Payments
- FHSA - First Home Savings Account
- NR4 - Statement of Amounts Paid or Credited to Non-Residents of Canada
- Part XVIII (FATCA) - International Exchange of Information on Financial Accounts
- Part XIX (CRS) - Informational Exchange of Information on Financial Accounts
- RRSP - RRSP Contribution Receipt
- T1204 - Government Service Contract Payments
- T215 - Past Service Pension Adjustment (PSPA) Exempt from Certification
- T2200 - Declaration of Conditions of Employment
- T2202 - Tuition and Enrollment Certificate
- T3 - Trust Information Return
- T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid
- T4A - Statement of Pension, Retirement, Annuity and Other Income
- T4A-NR - Statement of Fees, Commissions, or Other Amounts Paid to Non-Residents for Services Rendered in Canada
- T4A-RCA - Statement of Distributions from a Retirement Compensation Arrangement
- T4E - Statement of Employment Insurance and Other Benefits
- T4PS - Statement of Employee Profit-Sharing Plan Allocations and Payments
- T4RIF - Statement of Income from a Registered Retirement Income Fund
- T4RSP - Statement of RRSP Income
- T5 - Statement of Investment Income
- T550 - Application for Registration of RSPs, ESPs or RIFs
- T5007 - Statement of Benefits
- T5008 - Statement of Securities Transactions
- T5013 - Statement of Partnership Income
- T5018 - Statement of Contract Payments
- TFSA - Tax-Free Savings Account for Issuers
- Relevé 1 - Employment and Other Income
- Relevé 2 - Retirement and Annuity Income
- Relevé 3 - Investment Income
- Relevé 5 - Benefits and Indemnities
- Relevé 8 - Amount for Post-Secondary Studies
- Relevé 11 - Flow-Through Shares
- Relevé 15 - Partnership Information Return
- Relevé 16 - Trust Income
- Relevé 18 / RL-18 Consolidated - Securities Transactions
- Relevé 22 - Employment Income Related to Multi-employer Insurance Plans
- Relevé 24 - Childcare expenses
- Relevé 25 - Income From a Profit-Sharing Plan
- Relevé 27 - Government Payments
- Relevé 31 - Information About a Leased Dwelling
- TP-64.3 - General Employment Conditions
- Your data will be moved from your upload portal to secure storage immediately upon submission
- Your data will be accessible only to our data processing team, from a limited number of IP addresses
- Your data will be removed from our secure servers upon completion of your job to your sastisfaction
- Your data will never be used for any purpose other than to provide the services you have asked us to perform
- Your data will never be stored at any location other than secure storage on our restricted access servers
We like our clients, a lot, and many of them have been with us since we began our filing services. We enjoy working with our clients and we do all that we can to ensure that they enjoy working with us. Our goal is to meet every challenge as a new opportunity to be awesome and to exceed expectations.
Our clients have given our team and our service much praise over the years, here are some examples: