Intuit Financial Community: PeteP - Viewing Profile

Hi everyone,

Let's try and keep the posts friendly.

We should all appreciate that users of professional tax software will have different tax backgrounds, varying from novice to grizzled veterans. I remember being thrown into the "tax pool" as an articling student to get my tax hours, and I certainly did not have any formal tax training. Opening up the Income Tax Act was a daunting task, and I did not know all the different sources of information available to me.

Fortunately, I had a few other students in a similar boat, so we would collaborate with each other when we had to deal with things trickier than inputting a T5 slip. We got better and more confident as time went on, but we were still rookie tax preparers, as opposed to a "professional tax preparer". Our Tax Manager, who would review our work, ensured that we didn't release error riddled returns.

This forum is merely another collaboration tool, for both novice and experience tax users of Profile. There is no obligation to respond to "easy" questions, but please do not make people bad for asking them. No one was blessed with their extensive tax knowledge overnight.

In terms of having a forum just dedicated to veteran tax professionals, I know we have a "private forum" (which I believe was created to prevent google snooping of tax discussions). Would that forum suffice? If not, perhaps you can explain it a bit further and how you would like to have it run? If there is a big demand for this, I can bring it to the attention of the person that makes those decisions.

Thanks,
Peter

WHY complain? How much more negative does this place have to be?

You wouldn't be able to post the first couple of lines from a GIFI export file would you? Turbo Tax