Buy Canadian

Works fine on Wealth Simple

Tbh I found the same. The one I use has garish colour scheme (which has improved) and initially I thought wtf. But their focus is the bankend, rules,math and logic. In 15 minutes I can have my taxes done and filed online and it only cost me $15 for max 20 filings.

You don't want to do your taxes with the Comic Sans racecar app "Tax Freeway (for Win)"?

Oh man, you should try Genutax...unless they've updated since I used it last (I'm a couple years behind), it looks closer to 1994

The tax software companies lobby the government to keep the tax system complicated so that people will pay for tax software

Neither in Canada nor in the US do you need to pay a service to file taxes. All you need to do is get the forms and fill them out. People use these services because the forms are very long with many things to figure out, most of which don’t apply to most people.

I dunno about the US but in Canada you can download the completed form at the end before submitting it to the tax agency. Using this completed form can show you what you need to fill out yourself next year, assuming your circumstances don’t change.

I used Studio Tax for a few years and found it to be adequate. Last year I tried GenuTax and instead and I didn't like it as much. Instead of presenting you with the forms and you fulling them (which StudioTax does) GenuTax asks you a million yes/no questions one at a time. If you select "yes", then it shows you appropriate, corresponding form to fill out.

I guess the good thing about this method is you are presented all the possibilities, the bad thing is you have to yes/no everything, including a million things that probably don't apply to you.

Also, its not always immediately clear what form a yes/no will lead to, meaning if you select something wrong, you have to back track to correct it. (The questionnaire is linear, you can't just jump back and forth.) if you have a very basic return, that's probably fine. But I had some small self-employed income and international tuition, and going back and forth trying to yes/no my way to the correct forms frustrated me enough to switch back to StudioTax and start again.