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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."
- Study the program and the resulting data and write a workalike program for your favourite platform.
- Put in a Freedom Of Information Act request for the source code to this program so you can port it to your favourite platform.
- Work on WINE so it can run this program as it has been written.
- Study the tax system and develop a program that works better than the original so people on alternative platforms don't feel the need to boot into Windows to use the "official" software.
Of course, every one of these involves some kind of work and doesn't have the quick fix appeal of sending an email to a public servant who is just trying to do his job.How we know is more important than what we know.
I wonder if someone will set up a proxy, and then use that program to do a "friends" taxes for them.
Of course, we don't want to get the SOB audited by claiming all sorts of shit as exemptions. But I am sure we can deduct $1,000 from taxes due to the donations given to the single moms charity, better known as Scores Gentlemans Club.
Then we can deduct the $500 we donated to the Palistinial Defense Fund for Martyrdom.
Finally, we'll claim a $1700 deductable for the Windows compatible PC needed to complete the taxes. Since the tax application won't work on my Mac, I need to buy a computer with Windows. It is a buisness expense, because I will only use the computer once, to send the IRS my tax returns. That is 100% buisness use.
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WTF! RTFS e-tax is a web interface for filling out taxes. It is only available to Windows users. There is no tax given to Redmond. Before you post your american troll, read the summary.
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They make it awkward to use because they don't really want it.
I'm sure a PDF form emailed back to them in XML would be a universally usable, platform agnostic, way for them to receive the information.
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Do you know how big an idiot I feel?
I sure do. Actually, the first thing I could think of when I read your naive (and misspelled) comment about the "educated minority of the internet" was "wow, boy, whan an idiot".
Now that I've also read your signature about IP laws and your saw your "PuNK art", with all the political messages in stickers and stuff... I'm sorry to say that, but: sometimes people really need to get beaten up real hard in High-School, maybe that gives them a strong incentive to stop acting like retarted monkeys.
And no, this is not a Troll. The article submitter is the Troll here, with his non-news and stupid high-school Punk-Culture protests about some made-up "educated minority".
The worse collateral effect of being a rejected teenager is that these idiots start thinking that they're better than everyone else. That they get rejected for being "special" and not for acting like stinky weirdos with a bad sense of social interaction and self-image.
Start dressing up better, learn how to interact with people and cut the "PuNK" crap. Being different is not about being pathetic. It's about having your own ideas, and copying some stupid ideologically-bankrupt movement (that was actually about spoiled english teenagers wanting to use illicit drugsm drink booze and act like attention whores, "please, please, I'm so different, look at me!") from years ago is not going to help you with that, Mr. Stupid "PuNK" Loonie.