[Vivian Mitchell]

Up-dated to 2010.4.3 this morning
Now parts of the legal land descriptions on the T1273 have a warning saying to "enter legal land description". Most of the warnings are for the township box, but some are for the section box.
Even ones we have efiled now have the warning in them. I assume they will still efile.

Anyone else have the same problem?

Vivian

[samhill]

Vivian Mitchell, on 02 April 2011 - 09:25 AM, said:

Up-dated to 2010.4.3 this morning
Now parts of the legal land descriptions on the T1273 have a warning saying to "enter legal land description". Most of the warnings are for the township box, but some are for the section box.
Even ones we have efiled now have the warning in them. I assume they will still efile.

Anyone else have the same problem?

Vivian

Vivian, have you called tech support?

I am on hold right now, for another problem but they are open today, Saturday.

I haven't had to deal that particular problem yet. Still using 4.0. Tech guys here are kinda slow in updating. Might be a plus.

[Reg]

Vivian:
Have you tried just signing off on that box?

I haven't had your problem, but I know that signing off on the partnership number of a T2125 works to clear the efile error.

The only clients I have with T1273s are multi-jurisdiction and so not eligible for efile in any case.

[Peter@Intuit]

Hi Vivian,

My understanding is that the CRA is being more rigorous this year in terms of what they will accept for T1273 for e-filing. What was allowed last year may not necessarily be allowed this year. We have added some additional audit messages as many returns were being rejected for not having some fields properly completed. If you are getting warnings, please address them as the CRA will likely reject the submission.

This was highlighted yesterday on the CRA site: http://www.efile.cra...ltnbrd-eng.html

April 4, 2011

Completing T1 Returns

The purpose of this message is to ask that you take care when preparing returns to ensure that all of the necessary fields are completed prior to their submission. Our system validations are programmed to reject returns and\or entire batches if there is missing or invalid data in the applicable fields. Following are some examples where returns were rejected just in the past week. In total these represented approximately 2000 rejections.

On T1 Returns

Address Postal Code - invalid
Canadian Citizen Indicator - software is defaulting to an invalid value
Correspondence Language Code - software is defaulting to an invalid value
Taxpayer Current Residence Province Code - mixed case or lowercase prov code (aB, Ab, sK, oN or invalid)
Telephone Area Code - invalid values 000, 043, 052, 059

On SFD's (Selected Financial Data)
Address Postal Code - invalid/partial postal code entered
Agri Stability AgriInvest Program Participant ID Number - invalid
Business Number - invalid format
Combined Farm Operation Indicator - software is defaulting to an invalid value
Family Name of the contact person - invalid data
Legal Land Description Meridian Number - invalid data
Legal Land Description Quarter Number - invalid data
Legal Land Description Range Number - invalid data
Legal Land Description Section Number - invalid data
Main Farmstead Province Code - invalid data
Tax Shelter Number - invalid data
Many software packages generate warnings or have their own validations to inform the preparer that data is missing or erroneous. Should you chose to ignore the software product messages and submit the file, it will be rejected thereby causing a delay in its processing.

We would also like to remind you to use the latest available version of your software product in order to ensure that the copy you're working with includes all new changes and improvements made.

If you have any specific questions regarding the above, please contact our call support centre.

[spenceh]

Reg, on 02 April 2011 - 01:51 PM, said:

Vivian:
Have you tried just signing off on that box?

I haven't had your problem, but I know that signing off on the partnership number of a T2125 works to clear the efile error.

The only clients I have with T1273s are multi-jurisdiction and so not eligible for efile in any case.

I enter a few zeros, move to the next field, go back delete the zeros and the yellow warning goes away.

Silly but it works.

[Dink Meeker]

This is going to sound even sillier, but has anyone just tried hitting the delete key in the field?

[Vivian Mitchell]

Reg, I tried your trick but couldn't make it work.

Peter, thanks for answering but these T1's are going through and being accepted. In comparing one farmer to another, I've noticed the warnings are for the ones with single digit numbers in the squares. Seems to be the only common denominator I can see. One farmer has section 8 AND township 9 - both squares have warnings. Since we're in the southern part of the province, many are in townships 1 to 9 so I may have more warnings than most. Perhaps you can have your guys check it out. I tried using a 08 or 03 but it won't accept a leading zero.
Thanks
Vivian

[Vivian Mitchell]

One more thing to suggest I might be right about the single digits....if I change them to INCORRECT double digits, the program likes them just fine! No more warnings.

Vivian

[Peter@Intuit]

Vivian Mitchell, on 06 April 2011 - 12:26 PM, said:

Reg, I tried your trick but couldn't make it work.

Peter, thanks for answering but these T1's are going through and being accepted. In comparing one farmer to another, I've noticed the warnings are for the ones with single digit numbers in the squares. Seems to be the only common denominator I can see. One farmer has section 8 AND township 9 - both squares have warnings. Since we're in the southern part of the province, many are in townships 1 to 9 so I may have more warnings than most. Perhaps you can have your guys check it out. I tried using a 08 or 03 but it won't accept a leading zero.
Thanks
Vivian

Hi Vivian,

I poked around and found an answer. The CRA requires 2 digits in their XML schema, but Profiles already adds a zero if only one digit is entered. If a zero is entered as the first character by the user, Profile drops it. Accordingly, continue to enter the single digit (e.g., 9 instead of 09), and sign off on the audit message. It will transmit properly to the CRA, as you have already attested.

Sorry for the confusion. We'll get the conditions for that audit message cleaned up for next year.

Peter