In previous years, Canadian readers may have completed their taxes with QuickTax
or Ufile. Both of these are great programs and I plan to look at them in more detail later this month. However, there are a couple of free programs for preparing your taxes that I wanted to quickly share with you. While this tax software may not have all the bells and whistles of the bigger titles, they work as expected, especially for those with uncomplicated returns.

StudioTax
I used StudioTax for the 2008 tax year and was happy with it. StudioTax has a great wizard that will get you through most of the forms. You then have the option to add any specific forms you require and fill then out one field at a time.
Udotaxes
I haven’t tried Udotaxes yet, I believe it might be the first year it’s been out. I have installed it and looked around and it’s very polished for a free program.
Once I have all the forms for my personal taxes, I’ll try these programs out an provide a more detailed review. In the meantime, for those of you that are lucky enough to have your necessary documents, why not save some money and try out these free tax preparation programs?

