[Gllug] Tax returns on linux

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:45:43AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 28 Feb, NorthLondon John wrote:
> > 
> > There have been a number of mentions about the lack of Free tax 
> > software for the UK on this list (if memory serves me) and on some 
> > other UK lists (AFFS, again if memory serves me).

One problem with this was the UK Government portal where you are able
to submit tax forms online. AFIR you could only do so from a M$ machine
since they used proprietary M$ protocols. I don't know if this is
still the case.

> > So, is anything happening on this front? Is it likely to happen? Is 
> > anyone interested in actually contributing to such a project?

You would need to have an accountant on board as well as FLOSS people.

>    There is a version of the commercial "Sage" package available for Unix
> compatibles, but I have been told that it is not file compatible with the
> usual M$ version, and I do not know the price. It may be an up-market
> version, because I would expect it to be the choice of larger corporates.
>    There have been visits to the GLLUG stand at Olympia for a few years by a
> Japanese(?) gentleman who spoke about a project to design a universal system
> to which you could input a file containing the local tax laws and it should
> "just work", but when I mentioned this to an accountant he just laughed and
> said that we do not have tax laws, only (flexible) guidelines.

Are you thinking of Mr Ho - who has written Jalia (http://www.jalia.com/) ?

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