The DT Max software now includes links to the CICA's online Line-by-Line Guide to Preparing the Personal Tax Return

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 14, 2004

(MONTREAL, October 14, 2004) - Dr Tax Software Inc. and The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) are pleased to announce a joint initiative to provide users of Dr Tax's DT Max personal tax return preparation software with the extended online help in the Line-by-Line Guide to Preparing the Personal Tax Return available on the CICA's Knotia Web site (www.knotia.ca), Canada's first Internet Knowledge Service Provider specifically designed for accounting, financial, legal, and tax professionals.

Thanks to this joint initiative, the DT Max state-of-the-art knowledge base now includes direct links from each line of the federal T1 and Quebec TP-1 personal tax returns to the Line-by-Line Guide's comprehensive commentary on, and coverage of, CRA and MRQ guidance including supplementary guides, pamphlets, forms, bulletins, circulars, and an exclusive annotations knowledge map relating to any particular line number of the return.

"The Line-by-Line Guide is the perfect tool for busy tax preparers," says Peter Hoult, CICA Director of Information & Productivity Resources. "The links now being offered in Dr Tax's T1 program go directly to the appropriate CRA or MRQ guidance and to the extensive commentary and cross-references from the editorial team at Ernst & Young, which provides context, guidance, planning tips, and examples to supplement the information provided by the CRA and the MRQ."

The online Line-by-Line Guide is also available in French, and contains concordance cross-references between the federal T1 and the Quebec TP-1 returns, making it easier to alternate between the federal and Quebec corresponding lines and to determine the differences between the two systems.

The DT Max professional tax products are used by more than 2,500 tax preparation firms across Canada.

"We perceived a need for more tax research materials for our DT Max users, either included within or accessible from our software," says Malcolm Campbell, Vice-President and General Manager of Dr Tax. "It was difficult to justify developing our own when a powerful product such as the CICA's Line-by-Line Guide on Knotia was already being widely used in the marketplace and could be seamlessly integrated with our tax preparation software via the Internet."

Dr Tax Software and the CICA expect that DT Max users will appreciate the ease-of-use and comprehensiveness of the materials made available through this joint undertaking, and look forward to creating links for other DT Max tax products over the coming year.

About Dr Tax Software Inc.
Dr Tax Software Inc. is a privately owned, Canadian company located in Montreal, Quebec. It is a leading provider of tax preparation products that has served the professional tax community with personal and corporate tax software since 1987. Dr Tax Software's UFile online and UFile for Windows tax products are among Canada's top consumer tax products.

About the CICA
The CICA, together with the CA institutes/ordres, represents approximately 68,000 CAs and 8,000 students in Canada and Bermuda. The CICA conducts research into current business issues and supports the setting of accounting and assurance standards for business, not-for-profit organizations and government. It issues guidance on control and governance, publishes professional literature, develops continuing education programs and represents the CA profession nationally and internationally.

The CICA offers more than 200 different information resources and productivity enhancement tools designed specifically for financial professionals. These include traditional printed information products, CDs, DVDs, software tools, and the Internet-based material offered on Knotia (www.knotia.ca).