Tax Filing (was Re: App Question)

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Mon May 17 11:58:45 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004, Gary Sublett wrote:
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>On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:35:31 -0800
>Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
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>> This claims to require either windows or macintosh for online filing.
>> Is that right?
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>Just in case anyone is still interested, filed my very simple federal
>and state taxes yesterday with http://www.taxactonline.com.  Already
>have confirmation of acceptance by the IRS and should have a deposit in
>the bank during the first week of Feb.  No Windows or IE in sight, just
>plain old linux and mozilla.
>
>Tax season has alway been a trying episode for me to dig up a windows
>machine for TurboTax.  After last year's TurboTax DRM fiasco, I vowed to
>never send another penny to Intuit. 

I haven't booted a Windows system in two years since I now run tax software
on my OS X Apple system.

Bill
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