extensive knowledge of the tax laws are needed, they have access to those or can take one of the many classes offered by the very people many pay to do their taxes! Sounds a little idealistic (like me sometimes). I am certainly no expert in
BandiPat wrote: this area but it seems that taxes are just too complex to make the programming an easy task. Perhaps what might be a great idea is a multi-platform simple tax program that is just an electronic form that requires the user to know what he/she would have to know for paper forms.
Certainly there is more that can be added to this debate and since it is getting very off topic, I request we move it to the OT list or meet on Perhaps but I have been following the Crossover mail list for a while and I think I remember some discussion about one of the tax programs. Maybe it is possible to get one of the tax programs to work with SuSE using Crossover?
Since taxes are collected by the government, what I would really like to see is the government providing the software to help us hand over our money with less pain. I don't remember if it was this list or another one but I remember one person saying that his country's IRS equivalent provides software. Since this is an international list, is there anyone whose coutry provides tax software? Damon Register