thanks alan
> On Friday 04 March 2005 08:16 pm, MajorMikey wrote:
> > I would like a *nix tax program. Could I please get some
> > recomendations? For free or for pay; it doesn't matter.
>
> As far as I know there isn't one, if you mean a stand-alone, run on your
> computer, tax application.
>
> Correct that. Just checked freshmeat and two come up. One for 1998
> 1040EZ and the other is listed as beta. The latter is here:
> http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/. Obviously I have not used it.
>
> We used TurboTax online for several years until this year they changed it
> to require specific versions of MS Internet Explorer or Netscape. Turns
> out you can spoof Netscape and have it work fine. But, by the time I
> found the right spoof, my wife already went to http://www.taxact.com/ and
> had it done.
>
> Perhaps we are too trusting of online stuff and recent news of private
> information leaks from various sources perhaps proves my naivete. But,
> running only Linux, online seemed the best option.
>
> BTW, this is last year's slashdot discussion on the subject:
> http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/04/16/1752241.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&
>tid=163&tid=98&tid=99 Advice from slashdot can't possibly be any worse than
> from me! ;^)
>
> Alan
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