Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday July 16 2009, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> ...
>
> If it's open source, then someone should be able to make the changes
> needed for the US!

This has come up before. Tax preparation software, if it's to be more 
useful than just a generic spreadsheet, must embody the tax code, and 
that makes it very labor intensive to maintain and that labor takes the 
form of people who have considerable expertise in the tax laws reading 
and understanding the tax code and tracking the annual changes that 
congress makes to those laws.

It's just not the sort of thing that's practical for open-source 
software. Nor would I want to trust an amateur's encoding of the tax 
laws to guide the creation of my tax return.


> Fred
>
> --
> "Where's The Birth Certificate?"

You think we're keeping track of your birth certificate? Perhaps you 
could buy a wife to keep track of your things for you.


Randall Schulz
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