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Tax Time Again: Any Linux Solutions?

Posted by timothy on from the happy-new-year-from-your-uncle dept.

vettemph writes "As a Linux user, I've used Intuit's Turbo Tax On The Web in the past, but I don't like paying someone $20 to $30 to submit my forms. For the last few years I've been filling out the forms by hand and mailing them for $0.37 instead. Call me cheap. The IRS has a target of 80% of all taxpayers using e-file in the near future. Does anyone know where the 'free and open' solution is? Do we need to petition the IRS? Currently the IRS seems to be protecting their 'approved e-file partners'' profit margins in the name of a security layer. (I call shenanigans!)" So how will you be doing this year's taxes? I'd settle for a good PDF editor to neatly complete the IRS's PDF forms.

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  1. ...gah by Pyrophin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Quit being a rebel, install win98 on something (you dont even have to pay for it!) and run TurboTax. Its not a conspiracy, its just Inuit not completly retooling something to run on an OS used by 3% of the population.

    and, if that is too much, there is always WINE
    ~Phin

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    http://www.pyroweb.us
  2. a crappy of options by reflector · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    i don't file taxes, you insensitive clod!

    the things i really like about running a cash-only business out of my house is that i can't get laid off, i make my own hours, and i don't pay taxes to a government that goes abroad and murders citizens of other nations to steal their oil under the facade of "fighting terrorism".