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Carswell's TaxnetPRO™ is an internet-based research service offering full coverage of all Canadian taxes including income tax, GST, the provincially administered taxes, and tax and estate planning related information. Along with all the primary legislation and government documents, it offers the most comprehensive database of case law related to Canadian tax and relevant “non-tax” estate planning and estate administration case law.

TaxnetPRO™ also includes authoritative and comprehensive commentary from leading experts on income tax, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and tax and estate planning including commentary related to income tax from McCarthy Tétrault LLP, one of Canada’s leading tax law firms and the most highly regarded commentary on the GST written by David Sherman.

With TaxnetPro, you can:

• Keep pace with the latest tax developments - Review summaries and analysis of the latest developments in TaxnetPRO’s many electronic newsletters and articles.
• Stay current on trends and issues in taxation with TaxNews - The daily news component, updated continuously throughout the day. You will receive email notification of all updates that have been added to TaxnetPRO™ in the last 24 hours.
• Get immediate access to up-to-date content - The content is continually and seamlessly updated. You can be confident that you are always working with the most recent information and developments.
• Maximize your workplace efficiency - TaxnetPRO™ contains an extensive library of essential and commonly used forms, such as CRA IT and GST Forms. Each form can be saved, or printed for office or company use.
• Review all current legislation - TaxnetPRO™ contains comprehensive, continually updated databases of all federal and provincial tax and GST related legislation. TaxnetPRO™ also includes “non-tax” legislation that is relevant to tax professionals who provides tax and estate planning services and estate administration-related tax services.
• Learn from top industry experts - Get expert commentary in unparalled expert resources such as the Canada Tax Service – McCarthy Tétrault analysis and commentary, David Sherman's Notes to the Income Tax Act, and Catherine Brown’s Taxation and Estate Planning.
• View information in English and French - The French interface gives you the option of viewing the information in English or French. From the moment you sign on, practically everything will appear in French. No need to translate, no wasted time, and no confusion.
  

Why choose TaxnetPro?

• Designed and tested in collaboration with top accounting and law firms
• Canada’s leading tax minds for expert commentary and analysis
• The latest Canadian tax news
• Interactive workflow tools and superior functionality
• Complete integration of all information sources
• Powerful searchable table of contents

Canada’s leading tax minds for expert commentary and analysis

• Canada Tax Service, McCarthy Tétrault analysis and commentary – the best section by section Income Tax Act commentary and analysis available anywhere.
• Principles of Canadian Income Tax 4th Ed (Peter Hogg, Joanne E. Magee & Jinyan Li) – an introduction to Canadian income tax where emphasis is on policies that underlie the system and major features of the system.
• Fundamentals on Canadian Income Tax 6th Ed (Vern Krishna) – introduces practitioners to essential principles and concepts of Canadian tax law with numerous practical examples.
• Goods and Services Tax Analysis (David Sherman) – regarded universally in Canada as the best and most comprehensive examination of how GST works.
• Legislative Notes (David Sherman) – extracted from the hugely successful Practitioner’s Income Tax Act, has extensive annotations to each section of the Income Tax Act.
• Legislative History (David Sherman) – legislative history for all sections of all core tax statues.

The Latest Canadian Tax News 

You will always stay up-to-date with the real-time searchable news, and an email notification tool that is updated hourly to give you complete access to the latest documents released by the Department of Finance, the Canada Revenue Agency, and the courts.

Interactive workflow tools and Superior Functionality

TaxnetPRO workflow solutions and superior research functionality helps the researcher quickly locate on-point information. The integrated database design means that a single search includes documents that were added just hours ago. Superior functionality improves workflow with sophisticated search and save display options, search histories, tracking features, optimized navigation and cross-referencing, scheduled tasks, and increased print capabilities.

Complete integration of all information sources

Access the most current tax research available via fully searchable databases to gather relevant legislation, government policy documents, authored commentary, and cases in both French and English. 

Powerful Searchable Table of Contents

TaxnetPRO’s powerful searchable table of contents makes it easy for you to find what you need and see how you got there.  Below is the list of TaxnetPRO’s content as presented in the table of contents:

• TaxNews - provides access to documents that have been added to the system within the last 60 days. After 60 days a document is removed from TaxNews and is added to TaxnetPRO™ archived materials. All subscriptions on TaxnetPRO come with this access.
• Tax Practitioner’s Forum – commentary written by leading experts
• Tax Rates and Reference Tables – includes individual, corporate, general and international tax rates and reference tables.
• Newsletters - Tax Hyperion, a Carswell/TaxnetPRO™ exclusive, is a monthly email newsletter that also provides, archived in the database, insightful analysis of recent developments and is an ideal complement to the current awareness tax information provided by Carswell.  Edited by Bruce Russell of McInnes Cooper and David Blom of Grant Thornton LLP, Tax Hyperion provides perspective from both tax lawyers and accountants.
• Federal Income Tax Library
  • Income Tax Act, Income Tax Application Rules (ITARs), Income Tax Regulations, Remission Orders, Interpretation Act, Tax Court of Canada Act
  • Tax Treaties, Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act, Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital
  • Complete Legislative History for Income Tax Act, ITARs, and Regulations
  • Federal Budgets
  • Department of Finance Technical Notes (ITA, Regulations, Remission Orders)
  • CRA Views (Rulings and letters issued by the Canada Revenue Agency)
  • CRA Views in Focus [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Government Publications (Bulletins, Circulars, ATRs, Technical News, Guides and other miscellaneous documents)
  • Income Tax Cases
  • CRA Forms in PDF
  • Detailed analytical commentary
  • Canada Tax Service – McCarthy Tétrault analysis and commentary from the Canada Tax Service [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • David Sherman's Notes To The Income Tax Legislation [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Krishna's Fundamentals of Income Tax [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Hogg, Magee and Li's Principles of Canadian Income Tax [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Canadian Petroleum Tax Journals
  • Canadian Tax Highlight
  • Tax Times newsletters database [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Topical Indexes (Legislation, Government Documents, and Cases)
  • Tables (tax rates and credits, table of cases under appeal, interest rates, proposed amendments, automobile rates, etc.)
• GST Library
  • CRA Internal GST Directory
  • Full Text of GST Legislation (Excise Tax Act), Regulations & Remission Orders
  • Related Legislation (Non-GST Portions of ETA, Customs Act, Excise Act, Interpretation Act and Tax Court of Canada Act)
  • Full Text of Legislative Histories (Excise Tax Act, Regulations and Interpretation Act)
  • GST Cases and Sherman Commentary on cases
  • Government Publications (GST Memoranda, Technical Information Bulletins, Policy Statements, Guides, etc.)
  • All GST Forms in PDF
  • GST Headquarters Letters - French and English (language of release)
  • David Sherman's detailed Commentary and Annotations [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • GST Times and Case Notes [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
• Provincial Tax Library
  • Full text of all relevant provincial legislations and regulations including:
  • Personal Income Tax
  • Payroll
  • Corporate
  • Retail Sales Tax
  • Health
  • Land Transfer
  • Tobacco
  • Fuel
  • Gasoline
  • Property
  • Interpretation Bulletins and Guides
  • Case Law
  • Retail Sales Tax Commentary [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Ontario Corporate Tax Commentary [CARSWELL EXCLUSIVE]
  • Annotations and Histories
  • Budgets
• Tax & Estate Planning Centre
  Exceptional tax information and superior research functionality combined into one convenient and comprehensive online environment. Tax & Estate Planning Centre is designed specifically to meet both the research and workflow needs of the tax professional who provides tax and estate planning and other related services.  Tax & Estate Planning Centre is fully integrated into TaxnetPRO™ and features a unique and easy to use landing page including:
  • Anaylsis and commentary – includes Practitioner’s Guide to Trusts, Estates and Trusts Returns, Larry H. Frostiak; Canadian Taxation of Life Insurance. Joel T. Cuperfain and Florence Marino; Taxation and Estate Planning, Catherine Brown
  • Articles by leading experts organized by topic
  • Tax Planner Guides - Exclusive information written by the experts to alert you to issues arising outside of tax that may impact the service you provide.
  • Newsletters: BorderCrossings;  It’s Personal: Preserving Wealth for People and Private Companies
  • Tools and Solutions:  Powerful calculators, charts, interactive planning checklists; CBA National Concordance Tables; Probate Tables
  • Government Publications: Interpretation Bulletins; Information Circulars; Advance Tax Rulings; CRA Guides; CRA Views
  • Government Forms