Flecks of… Gray?

Instead of using the $40 Quicktax like I usually do to file my taxes, I decided to give the free Studio Tax a try and am I ever glad I did.

Putting all my forms in was just as easy and I was able to even do the deductions for having a home office and using a car for work without any extra difficulty (other than noting that I needed form T777 instead of the T2200 as I was expecting). I liked that I was able to work right in the forms themselves if I wanted to and I also had some helping utilities to enter forms like T4′s, etc.

I was concerned that I wouldn’t get a PDF output of my taxes which is something that I like to keep from each year for my reference, but that wasn’t a problem at all. And with the benefit of being able to file right online with Netfile, taxes was about the same or a bit easier than doing it previous years; and for saving myself $40, count me in for next year!