[unknown]

Used to use CCH Tax Reporter, still have an archive on my puter, current to 1999

Fooled around in the mean time with some other services

Including Intra, now sunsetted.

What do you guys use and recommend?

The full CCH Reporter?

Or is the Master Tax Guide service sufficient?

Or something alternate altogether?

[Tim Parris]

At the Bankruptcy Trustee, we have a copy of "Preparing your Income Taxes" on the computer. I like that given that I run on a laptop without connection to the internet.

[TaxDog]

CCH Federal Master Tax Basics Online $399.00 yr Master Tax Guide Act Regs Bulletins, Rulings

http://www.cch.ca/pr...bid=2038&tid=34

[JohnV]

All free.......


Income Tax Act
http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/i-3.3/

CRA Sitemap for Info, Forms, IT Bulletins Booklets etc
http://www.cra-arc.g.../sitemap-e.html

Preparing Your Personal Income Tax Returns

http://www.ctf.ca/ar...newsletter_ID=1
(older articles are fully searchable by public)

http://www.rev.gov.o...lish/index.html

http://www.taxsites....nal/canada.html

[unknown]

JohnV, on Nov 30 2007, 07:21 AM, said:

All free.......

You cheap Dutchman you!

lol

but, takes a lot of time to find the info, and time I do not have a lot of.

[JohnV]

I guess we all do it our preferred ways Bert, but basically, "Ain't that the truth". Why pay for a free good. Before the internet, I was definitely chained to paper\books, and I had to buy the stuff, but once you know where things are on the net, and WHAT things are out there, Man it's a gift. And what's neat that you find GOOD stuff. I was working on an estate plan this past August, and found a set of May 2007 Supreme Court decisions that do a lot for JTROS use in avoiding probate AND forestalling deemed dispositions on naming JTROS beneficiaries.

But I can hide behind "Liberate yourself" AND "Reduce your carbon footprint" ....so I can be cheap, chiding, self righteous AND Dutch meaning I can be so "je maintaindrai" about it :)

But the real reason I use the internet is so I can simply copy it and re purpose it to suit my needs. Perfect example. Has a case where a hobby musician, his full time gig was at the head of a web design firm, wanted to know if he could write off his instruments and his beer drinking buddies' rehearsal time. In less than 5 minutes I had the CRA bulleting on musicians and copied a bunch of the verbiage into my letterhead, which eventully yielded a multi page letter which of course yielded multiple dollars in tax billings which of course made my Dutchness tingle :)

[Gordon Wiber]

The staff use CCH electronic version guide books for preparing personal & corporate returns, very good linking to Taxprep T1 & T2. I use use Carswell Tax Partner & Canadian Tax Foundation Taxfind for tax research, Carswell GST Partner for GST research, & CICA Provincial taxes online for BC Taxes, such as income & PST taxes. I have been using these products for years, wouldnt hesitate to recommend them, the expert commentary & the related linking associated with these products is really what I pay for, the Acts and CRA views can readily be found online for free.

[Dan Reynen]

Be careful JV I was playing with some CRA documents yesterday and it pointed me to their copyright info and if you are using it for commercial purposes etc.

[Dan Bergen]

For those of you who are into free, try http://www.google.co...815:ffzitczqsne . I created a custom Google Search of the best Canadian tax sites.

You can also create a library of publications and use google desktop search. If you have a sheetfeed scanner with good OCR software you can scan in a course or seminar and have it automatically OCR'd, so the PDF's are searchable.

If you like these, you can download the new Google Chrome browser. When you are using either my search engine or google desktop you can create a shortcut to your desktop or the quick launch bar. When you want to use it, just select it from your quick launch bar and a browser will open with only the search. (I do this for the searches, my Gmail, and Google calendar.)

[dunner]

That's a great idea, Dan. Very good use of Google. I was looking at Chrome today but haven't downloaded it. It does look like it puts a turbo in the search engine.

[Tim Parris]

I would check out TaxBoard http://taxboard.ca as it has a comprehensive set of links to Canadian Tax Information. Though I have to admit that the forums were created in response to Intuit's management of its forum for professional tax preparers.