For accounting and bookkeeping firms
Your clients sign their T183 without a trip to the office.
The CRA accepts an electronic signature on the T183 and the T183CORP. Send the form when the return is ready. Your client signs it in their browser, and it comes back to you with the date and time it was signed. Maple eSign is Canadian-owned and hosted in Canada. It’s free to use, and you can sign up online, for yourself or your team.
Couples filing
Each spouse signs their own T183, one after the other.
Marcus and Joy each get their form at their own email address. Joy’s is sent as soon as Marcus has signed. Each signature comes back with the date and time it was made, and the CRA accepts a date and time stamp filled in by software.
Templates
Set up each form once and send it to every client.
Save your engagement letter and the T183, T183CORP and T183TRUST as templates. The fields stay where you put them, and only the client and the tax year change.
Who owns it and where it runs
Canadian company, Canadian hosting.
A company can host in Canada without being Canadian. Maple eSign is both.
- The companyCanadian-ownedOperated by Scrawlr Development Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, as the Privacy Policy states.
- The hostingHosted in CanadaThe application, its database, document storage and backups run in Google Cloud’s Montreal region.
The record
Every finished agreement comes with proof.
When everyone has signed, Maple eSign seals the PDF with a Certificate of Completion and keeps a tamper-evident history of the signing.
- Document
- Service agreement
- Status
- Completed
- Signers
- 2 of 2 signed
- Document opened
- Consent recorded
- Signed
- Countersigned
- Sealed
What the CRA says
The CRA accepts e-signed T183s if you meet its conditions.
We read the CRA’s page on electronic signatures on October 26, 2026. It lists the T183, T183CORP and T183TRUST among the forms it accepts with an electronic signature. You still need to confirm who your client is, and you keep the Certificate of Completion with the signed form. The CRA updates this page, so check it before tax season.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) accepts an electronic signature on the following forms:
T183, Information Return for Electronic Filing of an Individual’s Income Tax and Benefit Return
T183CORP, Information Return for Corporations Filing Electronically
T183TRUST, Information Return for the Electronic Filing of a Trust Return
In order for the CRA to accept the use of electronic signatures between third parties for these forms, it is expected that identity verification has been performed by the party receiving the signed form.
As always, it is the taxpayer’s choice whether they would like to sign the form traditionally or apply an electronic signature.
Send this season’s T183s with Maple eSign.
It’s free to use, and you can sign up online, for yourself or your team.