No, taxes are _not_ something you do in a spreadsheet. No-one does, not even the mavens you hire to do taxes. Without knowing every single tax law, and spending untold hours importing them into the spreadsheet, you cannot do taxes with a spreadsheet. And if you are sufficiently expert to do that, you name your program "Tax-Cut" or something like that, and sell it. --doug At 02:04 PM 1/28/2005 +0100, Örn Einar Hansen wrote:
Þann Föstudagur 28 janúar 2005 05:23 skrifaði Paul W. Abrahams:
I wonder if Wine can handle the latest Turbotax (or for that matter the latest TaxCut). Personally, I find TurboTax much easier to use than TaxCut, and it also has a much better collection of IRS instructions.
Taxes, that's something you do in a Spreadsheet ... with all the spreadsheet guru's in the world, I'd have thought someone had made one for every tax system there is. :-)
As the title of this thread indicates, I'm not the least bit surprised that there aren't any tax programs for Linux. Producing such a program is not only a very specialized business, but it requires that the job be done again every year. That's not a prospect that attracts many writers of open source code.
Paul
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