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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by rcfox on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:59PM (#19405723)
So I use simpletax.ca. (It's free, but will ask for a donation after you file.) (Also, I don't work for them.)

In it, there's an option to login to the CRA via your bank account (oauth?) and it will populate a bunch of data for you.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by kazinator on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:08PM (#19405762)
Simpletax is a free service, but it's proprietary software, as far as I can tell. It's in the same category as TurboTax.
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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by rcfox on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:48PM (#19405883)
Okay, but I was responding to the question of "why can't the tax agency do the work for me?"
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