Will Profile be updating its software so as to carry the files backward to prior years rather than just carry forward?

contact87 · ‎June 03, 2020

I have to open in 2017. It would be great to just change the year to start a prior year file. Your competitors products can do it.

sds11 · ‎June 03, 2020

I have used other products as well and don't know of any that carry back. That being said when you are starting a new file for a prior year just click on the down arrow beside the 'file new' and then choose the year that you want. The prior year will be listed or you can choose 'older T1 modules'. Then you can carry it forward if you wish. Hope this helps.

dianne10 · ‎June 03, 2020

I think the problem is that we can only e-file the T1013 from the 2017 T1 program and then we have to start at the oldest tax year and enter all the information again. I usually fill in the bare minimum in the new 2017 return to get the T1013 printed, signed and then e-filed. Then I start at the year that I need to.

contact87 · ‎June 03, 2020

Hi sds1, I used a Thomson Reuter's product for a number of years ( DTMax) and they have a system where, after entering the current year information, you just have to click on 'change tax year' and the entire information page will automatically copy into whatever year you open, forward or backward. It will also include the current year in the five year summaries. I find it puzzling that Profile does not provide a similar feature.

contact87 · ‎June 03, 2020

Thanks for you response Dianne. That is exactly what I do, too. It does surprise me that after I file the T1013, I can't just open a 2009 file and have the client's name. DofB, address, etc automatically populate the form. Profile also would not pick up the information from the 2017 file for the 5 Year Summary. It could be that I'm doing something incorrectly?

dianne10 · ‎June 03, 2020

When I get finished with 2016, I carry forward to 2017 to create a whole new file, overwriting the one I set up to e-file the T1013. That way, you can get all the info correctly on the 5 Year Summary.

sds11 · ‎June 03, 2020

You are right. I do the same thing to get the T1013 and then go back to the first year I have to do and carry forward from there. I have used DT Max too and agree that Profile should work the same in carrying the basic info to any year, but I was thinking of business info that can't be carried back, only forward. I am wondering how important it is to have the T1013 confirmation in the file. Dianne you said you start a new 2017 to have the carry forwards, but then you would lose the T1013 confirmation. I always write the number on the folder but have been manually entering the carry forward data (mainly business info) so as to not lose the fact that the T1013 has been accepted.

dianne10 · ‎June 03, 2020

If you keep paper files, you can always print the T1013 confirmation and keep that. Our thought is that we have the signed hard copy of the T1013 and we have the access, so we were not concerned about proving that we had e-filed the T1013.

wish · ‎March 22, 2021

I would like to see this feature also.

ProFile Duncan · ‎March 22, 2021

Hi, thank you for using Intuit ProFile Community

Since CRA requires that the authorization be sent from the current year module, previous year efile menu items are greyed out for authorization. CRA may ask for the signed authorization form, but not the actual ProFile tax file the authorization was sent from. The authorization can be printed and sent to CRA without saving the return.

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Hope this helps