It is that time of year again, for Filing your Canada yearly Income Taxes T1 Form.
Here is a Link to the MyTaxExpress 2025 Linux program
https://www.mytaxexpress.com/download25-in.html
Their website seems a bit messed up. Somehow I initially got to the wrong web page, a couple of times and could not find the 2025 version of the software. But I eventually did find the correct download page.
Here is a Link to the Canada government webpage, of Certified 2025 Tax programs
https://www.mytaxexpress.com/download25-in.html
Is this program able to download and enter automatically all of your T3, T4 and T5 slips that are issued to you and filed with the government? I have a Mac program called TaxFreeway and I started to do my taxes with it yesterday. I discovered that it has the ability to important the data from all of those forms automatically. You have to have (or create) an online account with the CRA. You then download the data from there in one easy download, and import the data file into the tax program. So easy; saves time of having to enter all of the information from your slips manually. This program is inexpensive ($13-15 depending on OS), and I think it is even free if your income is below a certain amount. No Linux version unfortunately, but I would think that the PC version would run in VirtualBox or VMware. I mention this not to discourage anyone from using the Linux version of MyTaxExpress. If the program is certified, might it not have the same feature?
Apparently it does have direct import. According to the website: "Real CRA Tax Form/Slip Input
Directly input T3, T4, T5 and other tax slips into the tax return; Real CRA tax forms interface will help you master myTaxExpress quickly and easily." That's fantastic! I might use it next year just because it has a Linux version. And wow: a $6.99 price for one tax return is great. The $13.99 price for up to 10 returns is good too; comparable to the cost of TaxFreeway.
Yes, I can verify that MyTaxExpress does allow you to download all the Tax Slips, from the CRA, that they have received, for you.
I used the download last year and it worked fine.
Just a note, that the MyTaxExpress program file, is an applimage, and you have to go into the settings for the file and turn on, making the file executable, to get the program to install. The install of the program will then happen with no problems.
I've used it for a couple of years. Love the price! I used to be able to do it for free with TurboTax because of low income. But the maximum was $20,000/year so as soon as we moved beyond it, it was going to be $20 or something.
The option to do your taxes directly through CRA over the phone is back, too. It's only for simple tax situations.