Intuit Canada

Infobox Company
company_name = Intuit Canada
company_type = General partnership
foundation = Edmonton (1992)
founder = Bruce Johnson, Chad Frederick
location = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
industry = Computer software
products = Personal finance, accounting and tax return software
parent = Intuit
homepage = [http://www.intuit.ca/ www.intuit.ca]

Intuit Canada is a developer of financial software, including personal finance management, small business accounting and tax preparation software, as well as Web-based services. The company is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta and has offices in Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Intuit Canada employs more than 350 people and is a subsidiary of Intuit.

Profile

The company was founded in 1992 by Edmontonians Bruce Johnson and Chad Frederick, two University of Alberta graduates. Bruce, a computer programmer, and Chad, an accountant, decided to build a tax preparation product called WINTAX - Canada's firstfact|date=January 2008 Windows-based personal tax preparation software. In 1993, they agreed to be acquired by Chipsoft, manufacturer of the U.S. personal income tax software TurboTax. Shortly after the WINTAX acquisition Chipsoft agreed to merge with Intuit, the developer of the Quicken financial software. [cite web |first=Rick |last=Pilger |url=http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=320 |title=A taxing success story |date=2001-07-09 |work=Express News |publisher=University of Alberta |accessdate=2008-01-10 ]

Intuit Canada continued to update and support the WINTAX software, which was renamed QuickTax in 1995, and quickly became the hub for international development at Intuit, producing localized versions of Quicken and QuickBooks for Canada (in French and English) and the United Kingdom. The U.K. version of Quicken was discontinued in 2005. [cite web |url=http://www.quicken.co.uk/index.html |title=Important notice for Quicken Users |work=quicken.co.uk |publisher=Intuit Limited |accessdate=2008-01-10 ]

While Intuit Canada does internally offer technical support and customer service, it does also rely on third-party companies to offer these services. The internal support is offered directly from call centres in Edmonton and Calgary. French-language support of QuickTax, TaxWiz, ProFile, Quicken & Quickbooks is provided by Nordia Inc.fact|date=July 2007 Additional English-language support for QuickTax, TaxWiz and Quicken is provided by Daksh eServices. [cite web |url=http://www.bpoindia.org/companies/index-d.shtml |title=Call Centers in India |work=BPOIndia.org |accessdate=2008-01-10 ]

Products

Current Products

*QuickTax - descendant of the original WINTAX application
* _fr. ImpôtRapide - French language version of QuickTax
*QuickTax online - Web-based tax preparation for Canadians
* _fr. ImpôtRapide en ligne - Online version of _fr. ImpôtRapide
*QuickBooks - Small business accounting and financial management software
* _fr. QuickBooks Succès PME - French language version of QuickBooks
*Quicken - Personal financial management software

Discontinued Products

*TaxWiz - Tax preparation software - company purchased in 2002, discontinued in 2007
*SnapTax.ca - web-based tax solution for individuals with simple tax returns (discontinued in 2006)
*Will Expert - Software package for preparing personal wills (for use within all of Canada with the exception of Quebec, due to specific provincial legislation)

Intuit also offers solutions for professional accountants and tax-preparers, available through Intuit Greenpoint, based in Calgary, Alberta. Intuit Greenpoint's main product is PROFILE, which provides tax software products to offices in all jurisdictions of Canada.

Recent Changes

In 2008, Intuit Canada discontinued the TaxWiz software and added QuickTax Basic to their lineup. Changes made by the Canada Revenue Agency forced Intuit and other tax preparing software companies to limit the number of returns available from their software to 20. [http://www.netfile.gc.ca/software-e.html] This caused Intuit Canada to stop offering QuickTax Pro50 and Pro100 products, and they now offer QuickTax 20 as an alternative.

External links

* [http://www.intuit.ca Intuit Canada]

References