Canada’s leading tax software product, QuickTax has been rebranded as TurboTax this year. Recently, I asked Intuit executives, Geoff Morgan and his colleague Cam Moore, about the name change and to provide us a rundown of what’s new this year. Here’s what I found: The QuickTax name was changed to reduce confusion with TurboTax and [...]
If you are looking for free software for filing your taxes, you now have a choice to make. StudioTax is once again available for the 2009 tax year and in my limited test drive of the 2009 edition, I found it to have the same high quality and ease-of-use that I noted in my original [...]
UFile.ca, a web-based tax software, is offering several free ways for Canadians to prepare their 2009 taxes: Free File Friday for Seniors: On February 26, 2010, tax payers 60 years or over can open a tax file and file their taxes at a later date for free. Check this web page for more details. Students, [...]
The QuickTax 2009 giveaway is now closed. The winner, Jim Squires, has been contacted but I haven’t heard back from him. Jim, if you are reading this, check your email for the winner notification and get back to me. If not, I’ll be picking a new winner. In addition to entering in the giveaway, readers [...]
QuickTax is Canada’s leading tax software product and it is easy to see why. When compared with all its competitors, QuickTax has the slickest and most intuitive interface and provides the maximum flexibility by allowing users to prepare their taxes with either the interview method or directly using forms or switching back and forth between [...]
Last year, I reviewed StudioTax, found it to be of very good quality and ended up Netfiling our taxes using it. Many Canadians seem to agree — StudioTax reports that more than 100,000 taxpayers used the software to file their returns in 2007. I asked the developer of the software for an update on what’s [...]
After a less than stellar experience trying to sell less product for the same price, Intuit is taking a new tack this year – it is offering a feature called Audit Defence that QuickTax users can optionally purchase (at a cost of $39.99 per return) when preparing their taxes. According to Intuit, QuickTax users who [...]
Last year, QuickTax frustrated a lot of loyal customers by drastically reducing the number of returns that can be filed with the Standard version. This year, Intuit seems to have listened to its customers: the number of returns that can be filed with all flavours of QuickTax is back up to 8 for the 2008 [...]
[Update: Here's an email from Joanne Birtch, Vice-President Marketing and New Business Development, Dr. Tax Software Inc. reproduced with permission: "I am writing about your blog entry called Slow Support at UFile. The subject title no longer reflects the reality at UFile. Our support team has made an enormous effort to improve its response times [...]
The T4s and T5s have arrived and you are looking to buy software to do your taxes. Here’s a guide to figuring out if you should stick to the software you are familiar with or check out the competition: QuickTax: If you do taxes for your extended family, you may want to think twice before [...]
