[Discuss] Tax software

Deryk Barker dbarker at camosun.bc.ca
Sun Apr 6 11:51:55 PDT 2008


What do people on the list use to prepare their income tax return?

For the last few years I've been using the quicktax web service, which 
worked very well.

HOWEVER, when trying to log on yesterday I was informed that my 
browser/OS was not supported. The supported list includes Firefox on 
Windows but not linux. (Why? Is there any functional difference between 
Firefox on various platforms?)

When I emailed in to complain about this retrograde step I was informed that

"Unfortunately, we no longer produce a stand-alone or online tax 
software solution for the Linux platform; this line has been 
discontinued due to the lack of demand from the Canadian Linux community."


Which strikes me as total nonsense - why we we need to 'demand' 
something which was already available?

Anyone any thoughts/alternatives?

deryk barker



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