Protection against additional fees.

Time spent on client services should never be compromised when responding to a review or audit initiated by the CRA.

Audit Shield is a no upfront cost solution for CPA accounting firms that covers professional fees and the fees of other experts should your client be subjected to a CRA review or audit.

With Audit Shield the accountant and the client can take on a CRA review or audit, side by side, responding in the most thorough way, without the cost or stress being a concern.  Reviews and audits may be unavoidable, but with Audit Shield the fee write offs don’t have to be.

Why CPAs like Audit Shield.

• No COST solution, in fact you retain an admin fee each year
• No claim DEDUCTIBLE, no minimum claim
• We do the work to send the offer to your clients (goes on your letterhead)
• If your client is subject to a review or audit – you claim 100% of your time responding (up to the sum insured)
• Claims are paid directly to you within 5 working days

All current and previously filed returns are covered, regardless of who prepared them.

Audit Shield at a glance.

The scope of Audit Shield is wide commencing with a simple post assessment T1 slip request, through to a GST review (or HST or PST where applicable), and right up to a full business audit.

Audit Shield also provides protection for reviews of CEWS, CERS, CRHP, THRP, HHBRP and LLP.

Our team complete all of the administration (printing and mailing) to invite your clients to participate, under a fee waiver service.

Join hundreds of CPA firms across Canada already offering Audit Shield.

With costs rising all around, a surprise accounting bill when selected for a CRA review can be hard to manage. Give your clients the choice of how to handle additional fees in responding while you recover your time for the work.

Lock in an obligation free, Partner’s in-person or virtual information session by clicking the button below.  It’s free and only takes around 30 minutes.  

In the information session you’ll learn how some of Canada’s most proactive CPA firms are protecting their clients and eliminating the need to write off their fees at the same time, with Audit Shield.

We sat down with key professionals from Baker Tilly Canada to delve into the world of Audit Shield and its impact on their clients and the accounting industry as a whole.

Why Audit Shield? Todd Zanatta, Partner at Baker Tilly Sudbury, along with Bud Arnold Baker, Tilly GWD Tax Partner, Helen Orok from Baker Tilly GWD, and Thomas Blonde, Partner at Baker Tilly GWD, shed light on the decision-making process behind offering Audit Shield to their clients. Discover the strategic thinking that led these firms to provide this valuable service.

The individuals behind the insights:

• Todd Zanatta, Baker Tilly Sudbury, Partner
• Bud Arnold Baker, Tilly GWD, Tax Partner
• Helen Orok Baker Tilly GWD, Partner
• Thomas Blonde, Baker Tilly GWD, Partner

My personal experience with Audit Shield is that they look for every possible way they can argue that CRA activity falls within the items that are covered. They run a very ethical, client-centric business. In addition to avoiding “surprise audit costs”, the practitioner never has to think “is this worth fighting economically?”

I have lost count of how many times I have been able to tell a client “There’s no fee for that – you paid for Audit Shield”. That takes a lot of the sting out of a CRA review! If the client does not want coverage, the decision is theirs.

Kingston Ross Pasnak LLP, Edmonton AB
Hugh Neilson FCPA FCA TEP, Director – Taxation Services

As a tax specialist with almost 40 years of tax experience, this product could have saved clients significant fees that they have paid to have their tax enquiries covered. I encourage anyone in the business community to consider this. Our clients have been pleased with the option of using Audit Shield – the vast majority of corporate clients have opted in to the program.

Smith & West Chartered Professional Accountants, Ottawa ON
Thomas West, Tax Partner