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Great White North Gets New Mac Tax Return App
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
February 18th 2003
Canadian users still have alternative to Intuit tax return offerings.
While US Mac owner/drivers boast MacInTax and TurboTax when Internal Revenue comes
knocking, Canadian Mac users can turn to Grifftax Simple.
The Globe and Mail reports that, currently, Intuit dominates the Canadian tax software
market with QuickTax and TaxWiz, which has sparked an investigation into Intuit's
level of market dominance. Intuit acquired the developer of TaxWiz, Taxamatic, late in
2002.
Intuit claims its position isn't dominant, arguing they provide a wide range of
business and consumer tax solutions. Their spokesperson, quoted in the article, argues
that "Consumers have at least as many choices or more this year than they've ever
had,"
The Globe and Mail story is incorrect on one point though: GriffTax is not a new
entry; the software has been developed for Mac since 1985 and some relatively recent
versions - the 2000 version for the 1999 tax year - ran on Mac OS versions as old as
6.0.8.
GriffTax Simple is designed for minimal tax returns. If you have interest income,
donations, medical expenses and retirement savings plan deductions, this is the type
of consumer software that will get the job done quickly. The software is free to
download, and users file electronically
Each indivdual return is then sent to Canada Customs and Revenue Agency through its
Netfile program, which costs $CAN5 per return.
Analysis: We wonder how long it will be before 'another' software company gets looked
at long and hard by Canadian regulators? After all, British Columbia was trying to
lure a certain Redmond company there, weren't they?
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