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Story: Filing US federal taxes under LinuxTotal Replies: 3
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tracyanne

Mar 28, 2008
1:38 AM EDT 		You aren't supposed to be able to, as the ATO application for filing Tax returns on line is in fact a Windows application written in VB6 (I used to work with the blokes that wrote it), but it's so old now that it runs perfectly well on Linux under WINE.
Sander_Marechal

Mar 28, 2008
2:11 AM EDT 		The Dutch tax office (belastingdienst) have been providing their electronic tax forms for Windows, MaxOSX and Linux for a couple of years now. The Linux package is built using autopackage and works flawlessly on any distribution I tried.
jezuch

Mar 28, 2008
3:55 AM EDT 		The Polish tax office provided a program to file taxes via Internet, and it was involved in a GPL violation (of SSL library used), security flaws, anticompetitive behaviour (it's, of course, Windows-only and closed) and thwarting reverse-engineering attempts (named after Janosik - who was our local version of Robin Hood). Finally, AFAIR, some of it was opened a bit (freedom folk want only the protocol specs), but I didn't track it that much...
gus3

Mar 28, 2008
8:08 AM EDT 		California uses PDF's with forms, and a modicum of sanity checks (are all required fields non-empty?). As I recall, you can enter data using Acrobat Reader and then submit it electronically.

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