GenuTax

What works

1. Installs
2. Starts up
3. Run through the "interview" process to produce a tax return for the 2019 tax year.
4. Retrieve tax information from CRA account automatically for filling in return (such as T4's, etc)

What does not

Interface elements are not viewable. Upon starting the software it asks to select "open existing taxpayer file" or "start new taxpayer file", but the text beside the radial buttons is not visible. Black boxes fill dialog elements and mousing over them changes them to standard buttons that do not appear to be correct for their location in the dialog box. If you attempt to click through to continue the process while ignoring the visual issues it becomes impossible to continue through at a certain point.

Selecting dates using the drop-down calendar, you can refine the year and month, but selecting a particular day always enters the day 23, so it needs to be manually typed in if another day.

Workarounds

Installing .net 4.5 using winetricks fixes the UI issues.

What was not tested

Submitting the tax forms prepared by GenuTax (not yet ready to file taxes for 2019, just wanted to find software to prepare with)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Install a browser inside the same wineprefix in order to perform automatic retrieval of tax information from your CRA account such as T4's. I used winetricks to install Firefox and it worked fine.