April brings spring and tax season. In years past I’ve simply purchased Quicktax for income tax preparation, but my recent problems with Intuit software activation, and a desire to find a solution that runs on Linux led me to look for alternatives. I looked at QuickTaxWeb / Taxwiz Online, but it didn’t support either Firefox or Linux.

uFile.ca supports Firefox 1.x, and worked well. It noted that I didn’t have Acrobat reader installed, but considered that an optional requirement. The return looked fine in Gnome’s PDF viewer, but I haven’t tested printing from it vs. Acrobat to see if the output is identical yet. I may not have to; Adobe has announced Acrobat 7.0 for Linux will be available later today.