run windows tax software in Linux!
Maybe not in time for many people (assuming on-time filing), but perhaps useful for the future: After much messing around, I got StudioTax personal tax software to run on Linux using Wine! Better, yet, I also got it running in Wine in firejail to keep the Windows software jailed up unable to misbehave. StudioTax is 100% free (as in beer, but not as in FLOSS) Canadian personal (and sm.bus sole prop. non-T2 business) tax software (donation-ware). Brad & I have been using them for years, ever since CoolTax stopped. If you're half decent at accounting and taxes, forget for-pay QuickTax/TurboTax! It's a bit trickier than most other Windows software on Wine because it requires .NET 4.5 and .NET needs quite a few tricks to work in Wine and firejail (ugh). I'm having lots of fun with wine/dosbox (and firejail!) lately and I've *nearly* gotten to the point where I do not require a Windbloze box anymore. Just an ancient Quickbooks (should be easy) and EAC (maybe not so much) to go and I may just turn my Windbloze box off for good! -- Trevor - taking MUUGers' I-use-Windows-as-my-desktop excuses away, 1 exe at a time
Unfortunately, StudioTax is no longer free. https://www.studiotax.com/paymentpage.html But $15 is still very reasonable. -- Bradford C. Vokey Treasurer Manitoba UNIX User Group On 2021-04-25 4:23 a.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
Maybe not in time for many people (assuming on-time filing), but perhaps useful for the future:
After much messing around, I got StudioTax personal tax software to run on Linux using Wine! Better, yet, I also got it running in Wine in firejail to keep the Windows software jailed up unable to misbehave.
StudioTax is 100% free (as in beer, but not as in FLOSS) Canadian personal (and sm.bus sole prop. non-T2 business) tax software (donation-ware). Brad & I have been using them for years, ever since CoolTax stopped. If you're half decent at accounting and taxes, forget for-pay QuickTax/TurboTax!
It's a bit trickier than most other Windows software on Wine because it requires .NET 4.5 and .NET needs quite a few tricks to work in Wine and firejail (ugh).
I'm having lots of fun with wine/dosbox (and firejail!) lately and I've *nearly* gotten to the point where I do not require a Windbloze box anymore. Just an ancient Quickbooks (should be easy) and EAC (maybe not so much) to go and I may just turn my Windbloze box off for good!
-- Trevor - taking MUUGers' I-use-Windows-as-my-desktop excuses away, 1 exe at a time _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Great info for next year... I understand that win10 will be a pay as you go monthly or yearly platform by then.... and only the wifes box is win10 On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 8:23 AM Bradford Vokey <brad@fsi.ca> wrote:
Unfortunately, StudioTax is no longer free.
https://www.studiotax.com/paymentpage.html
But $15 is still very reasonable.
-- Bradford C. Vokey
Treasurer Manitoba UNIX User Group
On 2021-04-25 4:23 a.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
Maybe not in time for many people (assuming on-time filing), but perhaps useful for the future:
After much messing around, I got StudioTax personal tax software to run on Linux using Wine! Better, yet, I also got it running in Wine in firejail to keep the Windows software jailed up unable to misbehave.
StudioTax is 100% free (as in beer, but not as in FLOSS) Canadian personal (and sm.bus sole prop. non-T2 business) tax software (donation-ware). Brad & I have been using them for years, ever since CoolTax stopped. If you're half decent at accounting and taxes, forget for-pay QuickTax/TurboTax!
It's a bit trickier than most other Windows software on Wine because it requires .NET 4.5 and .NET needs quite a few tricks to work in Wine and firejail (ugh).
I'm having lots of fun with wine/dosbox (and firejail!) lately and I've *nearly* gotten to the point where I do not require a Windbloze box anymore. Just an ancient Quickbooks (should be easy) and EAC (maybe not so much) to go and I may just turn my Windbloze box off for good!
-- Trevor - taking MUUGers' I-use-Windows-as-my-desktop excuses away, 1 exe at a time _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
_______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
On 2021-04-25 Bradford Vokey wrote:
Unfortunately, StudioTax is no longer free.
https://www.studiotax.com/paymentpage.html
But $15 is still very reasonable.
Darn. I guess not enough people donation-wared in previous years. I hadn't noticed yet as I have been filling in fields (it lets you install and use) but not attempting to netfile yet. So it's $15 for 20 returns (enough for our 3 returns, at $5/return). Not bad. I like it because it's reliable and error free and CRA likes it and I have had zero grief filing with it for, what, around 10 years? And it's a 100% Canadian company. The downsides are it's .NET and really clunky/ugly. If you're under $20k you can also file for free, so there's that. And if you're a really cheap bbbbbbb you could always use the software for all the math/calcs/optimization then transfer what it shows to the paper forms :-)
Hi Trevor and fellow MUUG members, Three notes in one: On 25/04/2021 4:23 AM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
After much messing around, I got StudioTax personal tax software to run on Linux using Wine! Better, yet, I also got it running in Wine in firejail to keep the Windows software jailed up unable to misbehave
Regarding Studio Taxes does anyone happen to know the over ride key strokes function? It would be a real time saver or me, so if you would please? Regarding your earlier note on the MUUG renewal. Wow! How quickly 2 yrs have past since I first joined using your nifty Credit card cell phone reader! Then last year with ongoing limitations at MUUG end you advanced a credit card alternative to paypal which I avoid like many MUUG members with Gates. I'm heavy into taxes so I'll catch up with you in May between farming and seeding priorities. Lastly as a bit of personal info from my last year's Christmas friend letter of a near death and significant concussion when at 90 K I slammed into a semi who cut me off crossing the passing lane in a 110K zone to do a left hand turn at an uncontrolled field road type intersection. Thank-fully with many fantasic first responders etc I'm nearly all back again but sure has been an eye-opener how concussion can be very similar metaphorically to the hidden damage of soft-tissue damage like a whip-lash.. Next, having experienced a serious motor vehicle accident last summer https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/70-year-old-left-with-serious-injuries-after-cra... Eduard
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