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Mon, 15 Jul 2013
My annual animosity toward ATO for their failure to provide open eTax - 21:31
I wonder if I should try installing etax on wine and see if I can do my
tax return that way, or just fill it out on paper in my annual protest
to the ATO (going on the assumption it must cost ATO more to process
paper based tax returns than eTax based tax returns) that they still
make people buy a broken non-free operating system of some description
if they wish to fill in their tax return electronically. If I were not
so concerned at the environmental waste of the idea and of the
Australian government giving even more money to a US company for no good
reason (Microsoft), I would have thought about buying a computer with
windows installed for using it once a year simply to do tax, then claim
the entire cost against tax. I hope by next year ATO may have caught up
with the ABS (The Australian Census is completed online) in allowing
someone with an open source web browser such as Firefox to do their tax
on any platform.</rant>
I was happy to see some more
information
has been released, thanks to Andrew Donnellan about the underlying
activity behind this lack of support.
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