[Discuss] Tax software

[pw]

Deryk Barker wrote:
> 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


I suggest that until people start doing the demanding thing
they'll just do business as usual and you'll never see tax
software for linux.

Call all your linux friends and get them to 'demand' quicktax.
A facebook group worked well for the copyright thing.
Maybe they just need their buts kicked.

Peter