TaxTron – Canada’s Tax Software Review
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| Developer: | TaxTron |
| License: | Freeware / Free to try |
| User Rating: |    (59 votes) |
| Offical Website: | www.taxtron.ca |
| Platform: | Windows, Mac |
TaxTron Review
TaxTron is Canadian developed tax software packages available for both Windows and Mac platform. The software provides solution for individual as well as tax professional preparer that provides tax preparation service to other people. There are several packages available such as individual and family package.
TaxTron trial version is available for you to download and try for free of charge. The program is available to all Canadians in both English and French. TaxTron is the solution for personal tax return, preparing tax returns as a business or preparing corporate returns. You can prepare your returns using the software for free before you can print or Netfile any return.
User Experience with TaxTron Software
To add more useful information for other users, if you ever experience using the TaxTron program, I encourage you to write a short review about your experiences with software and share it in the following section:
February 28th, 2010 9:24 pm
Have lot of trouble, not working properly.
March 30th, 2010 8:21 pm
I have used Taxtron software for several years. For 2009 a complete new, more sophisticated system had been developed. Unfortunately it has not been sufficiently debugged and I do not have sufficient confidence to use it for my Income Tax Return. The concept looks good but in my opinion it was marketed too soon. 20 votes
April 11th, 2010 5:37 pm
I shut down all programs, installed TaxTron and at initial startup it give the message -
“TaxTron has encountered a problem and needs to close”.
It never did run and I deleted it.
April 18th, 2010 5:37 pm
Very very frustrating. That the CRA has such limited choice available to the Canadian public is shocking. The program I used last year was much simpler and user friendly. I paid $40 for TaxTron and have had nothing but trouble. I feel it’s designed for professionals, not average citizens. I wish I had sent out tax returns to H&R Block.
February 14th, 2011 5:00 pm
The mac version is full of bugs. Over the years they have made no effort to make it compliant with the mac look and feel.
This thing is a piece of crap. Don’t use it, don’t buy it.
March 22nd, 2011 8:40 pm
This software is absolute crap. Impossible to navigate, I keep finding myself at dead ends with no way to continue – no on-line support and the “help” tab isn’t working.. Junk, junk, junk. I’m extremely pissed off that I paid good money for this programme. Now I have to go out and buy a programme that actually works!
March 25th, 2011 11:08 am
I had lot of problems when I tried to link my wife’s information. At the end, the Netfile was rejected by CRA. TaxTron customer support is horrible. They told me I was the first person in Canada to report this issue and I won the lottery. Actually a lot of people had the same experience as mine. They couldn’t solve this kind of simple problems and never get back to me. Seems they don’t care at all. I will NEVER user their product.
March 31st, 2011 7:01 pm
I’ve used the software for 4 years. Two years ago they introduced new software. This year’s version is so full of bugs I can’t complete any tax returns.
Boxes greyed out. Initial version saved to a location it didn’t have permission to save, so you had to manually set the permissions. The update fixed that but didn’t fix the issue for people upgrading.
They offered me a free license.. I wish I could use it. The software is just too buggy… not withstanding very difficult to navigate
April 6th, 2011 5:33 pm
T2 software calculation in Schedule 40 has program errors. Part 6 Analysis of balance of losses
is not working properly and the closing balances do not change. Spent hours to figure this out and it was finally verified by the programer himself who was nice to call me. I was then promised a call back for refund which never came. Calling back myself I was put through procedure, which I don’t have time for. Spend enough time on TaxTron already, if they are really so desperate to keep my money, then be it. Just wondering how they got government approval for T2 tax software which doesn’t work at least in some areas and that makes you wonder about what else is not working.