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QuickTax This Year?

Totally unlikely!!  I am kind a anit-QuickTax person now. Why? Simply because they treat the customers in a very unfair bad way.  Simply they don't respect their customers!!

I have been using TaxWiz for last 5 years and was very satisfied what they offered.  It might be true that Taxwiz wasn't as good as QuickTax but $19.99 for 4 returns with pretty easy use and accurate software really made it as a serious competitor to QuickTax.  So QuickTax mad a quite smart move and bought TaxWiz early 2007 and discontinued TaxWiz right away.  Fortunately, due to largely requests from TaxWiz users and the bad acquisition timing, they had no choice but still leave TaxWiz survived for the tax year of 2006, but you had to purchase the copy from retailer store, no online download at all.  I, as well as my other 2 friends who also had been TaxWiz users for last past 3 years, managed to have our year 2006 tax filed via TaxWiz, even though we all had no idea what we are going to use for year 2007.

As we are in the new year, it is time now for us to think how we are going to prepare our taxes.  Too bad, QuickTax offers a very ridiculous price range to its customer this year, which is a typically bad news for a user who used to be Taxwiz' customer because simply you are not respected.  For my case, I have to spend $39.99 to prepare my tax online, meaning that I might not be able to obtain a physical of your own tax file copy.  I need to double the price to $79.99 in order to do so, while I used to only spend $20 the most every year.  How ridiculous it is!!  I have seen a lot of merging cases before but to be honest, I never seen a business model like this after the merge.  QuickTax thinks that buying its competitor's company, burying its software into the soil, and offering its customer a much higher price software would simply get much higher profit.  Sounds logical, eh??

No, I am not going to let them to get my money.  A business model like this simply is not going to deserve my money.  I am going to review their other competitors products to see if there is any that suits my feet.  But preparing the worst, I rather pay more money to my accountant.

Print | posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:25 PM | Filed Under [ Stuff in General ]

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# re: QuickTax This Year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_tax_preparation_software_for_personal_use

Take a look at this link. I recommend Studiotax. Its FREE and does it all.
1/22/2008 9:34 AM | barry
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# re: QuickTax This Year?

I've used Ufile.ca for the longest time and never had any issues with it. It's around $15 per tax-year, unless you fall below a certain income amount (and I did the first time I used it) and then it's free. But I'm easily willing to spend $15 for a very simple interface, and it even lets you print out your tax records at the end of the process.

The only downside I noticed was that if you've moved recently (and it's your first time filing your taxes at your new address) then they disable the "File Online" option and force you to print out your taxes and mail them in. At least the hard work is done for you. ;)
1/22/2008 9:57 AM | Lee Ingram

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