[Gllug] Tax returns on linux

[Peter Childs]

Chris Bell wrote:

>On Mon 28 Feb, NorthLondon John wrote:
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>>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).
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>>This question has now (this weekend) come up on the Ubuntu users list 
>>as well; it appears to be a major block to UK business linux usage.
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>>So, is anything happening on this front? Is it likely to happen? Is 
>>anyone interested in actually contributing to such a project?
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>>John
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>>www.ubuntulinux.org
>>linux for humans
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>   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.
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    Then how come, if we break them we get in trouble. If they are only 
guidelines it won't matter if we just happern to break or twist a few.

Peter Childs
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