Free
software
There is a lot of free software available these
days. See the Free
Software Directory from the Free Software
Foundation. One of the free software products available from this website
is OpenOffice,
which includes a word processor, spreadsheets and more.
Intuit Canada is offering QuickBooks
EasyStart Free Starter Edition for new and home-based businesses.
A website which has links to free
and reasonably priced software is PRDTax
Freebies.
Everyone needs antivirus and firewall software.
Check with your internet service provider, because many of
them now provide this software for free.
See the Take-home
pay calculators article on the Personal Tax page for
information on free online payroll calculator from Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA). See the article on Automobile
Taxable Benefits on the Small Business page, for a link
to the CRA online automobile taxable benefits calculator.
Google Pack is a collection of free software
downloads including Star Office, Picasa photo organizer, Norton Security Scan,
Spyware Doctor, Google toolbar and desktop, photo
screensaver, RealPlayer, and other useful software.
You can pick and choose which products you wish to
download.
Google provides other free software:
