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smnrchrds on March 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making T...

We (almost) have this in Canada. CRA (our version of IRS) has an Auto-fill [0] option allowing the tax preparation software to import most commonly-used data after authorization. There are some good free tax preparation software, my favourites being SimpleTax (online, web-based) and StudioTax (offline, with option to file digitally or print the completed forms for paper filing). It typically takes me less than 15 minutes to file my taxes.

[0] https://help.simpletax.ca/questions/how-to-use-afr

redthrow on March 21, 2017 [–]

SimpleTax.ca is great. I think they were initially run by just 4 people (Accountant, Designer, Programmer, and Sales).

suter on March 22, 2017 | [–]

Three of us, actually: product manager/designer, non-practicing tax lawyer, and developer. :)

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