Australia's 'e-tax' Windows Only

Kinky Bass Junk writes "As the need to submit tax returns is looming, notification emails are sent out to users of the tax office's services. This year, the Australia Tax Office (ATO) is using a web-based tax return system, as well as the traditional paper based systems. The e-tax website has all the details, and the requirements of the software stand out: 'e-tax is not compatible with Linux or Apple Macintosh computers. However, if you have suitable Windows Emulator software installed, you may be able to use e-tax.' Here is a protest email I have set up for those who disagree with this."

Comments

Thank you foreign governments....

[ron_ivi]

for keeping the US economy strong. It's nice to know that when anyone pays a tax in Austrailia, they also pay a tax to Redmond to keep our economy here alive.

Re:The protest

[HD Webdev]

the educated minority of the Internet world often choose to use alternative operating systems,

"The sort of thing not to say when protesting 101"

Re:Give us the source

[mabinogi]

Because at the moment they provide guarantees and protection when you use the application to submit your taxes.

If they opened the source and allowed non official clients to connect to the service, they could no longer provide those guarantees or protections.

Also, I don't think too many people would be happy trusting their TFN to anything but software provided by the ATO.

Also, the etax software has _never_ been anything but windows only, I don't know why suddenly that's a big problem - or any more of a problem than it was in 1998.