Customer Reviews

QuickTax Standard 2009 [Old Version]

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Great program, quick and easy to use. I recommend this product to family and friends. I never used Quick Tax in the past but I will use it every year going forward.

QuickTax is worse and more expensive than ever. It gave me much grief this year. I recommend strongly that you look elsewhere. Really. It's "help" feature has never been good. It relies on a "community" of users who basically vent at each other about how lame it is. But this year was special. This year it generated redundant forms for my business, and then applied them to my Federal and Quebec returns. And if you try to override any of the results caused by their bugs, they won't let you use Netfile. But it mysteriously decided that a capital cost allowance on a laptop was worthy of being duplicated in its own business form, even though it was already on the correct business form. Oh, it also decided the apartment that I'm renting is a rental property that I own, and it generated forms for that too. And their "donation optimizer" really sucks. And I could go on, but I won't. Please buy something else. Really. I'm trying to help you. If your tax situation is simpler, it might actually work, but UFile or some other competitor would probably work too, and cost you less.

For years I used an accountant to do my taxes. When he retired I thought I'd try doing it myself with Quicktax. 2010 will be my 4th year using the product. I find that I now spend less time completing my taxes than I use to spend preparing everything for an accountant.

I have found Quicktax straight forward and easy to use, and that's from someone who isn't all that computer literate.

There's nothing much more special compared with other similar products out there. You can also purchase Ufile for half the price or even get the free StudioTax. Intuit pays its distributors more in order to get them to carry Quicktax almost exclusively.

Even if this software was priced closer to the competition, something which is far from being the case (Ufile is HALF the price for example), this product would still remain the wrong choice for the following reasons:

a) Horrible customer support
b) Never-ending requests for "satisfaction surveys / customer feedback"
c) Provided by a company who is known to exploit its customer base (see the 2007 version and associated review)
d) Runs much slower / requires better hardware to run

Stay away.

Go with Ufile or similar.

Windows 2000 users beware...

The product description suggests that Windows 2000 is a supported platform for QuickTax 2009. Having just bought the damn thing and trying to install it on my Windows 2000 computer, I can confirm that it in fact does not support Windows 2000. Checking the fine print on the side of the box confirmed this. You might want to update your product description.

I find that using Quicktax makes what can be a headache during tax time a breeze. It is straight forward and has all the necessary tools there for my need. Great job!

Last year was the first year I did my taxes on my own. I'm a full time student and QuickTax's student product was great! It walked me through all of my student deductions and the few times I got stuck the in-product help answered my questions easily. I even ended up getting a refund, which I wasn't expecting.

QuickTax makes tax return a simple thing. The UI wizard will ask you questions and it will figure out how to help you maximize your tax return. You simpily just have to enter the amounts in and you're done. For more advanced users, there is the tax return forms that is like what you will fill out on paper. Once you're done it will send your tax return to CRA and will tell you how much you get back or owe.
If you earn less than $20 000 a year it won't use one of the 8 included tax return and I believe the online version is free for under $20 000 a year as well.

The product is very good. It leads you step by step to get your income tax done. It's more informative than the people whom you pay them lots of money to do your tax. I ordered this CD and I received it after 5 days. It's great.