US taxes

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:51:31 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>>I know a few of you inquired about being able to do your US income taxes
>>in Linux a couple weeks back.
>>
>>For anyone still wondering or searching, i can confirm that
>>https://www.taxactonline.com works without a single problem in Mozilla in
>>Linux.
>>
>>Even better news is that you can do and efile your federal taxes for FREE
>>with https://www.taxactonline.com as long as you get there from the IRS
>>website.  There are actually alarge number of firms offering 100% free
>>efiling as long as you get to them from here:
>>http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, Lonni. I just did a dry run of my taxes on
> this service from Firefox, and it works like a charm. Unlike many free
> services, taxactonline handles capital gains, business profit/loss,
> and depreciation. I didn't come across anything that made me feel I
> needed to cough up the (extremely) modest fee to get the expanded
> version. Another benefit is that it calculates the proper tax with
> capital gains. The calculation of tax with capital gains in the IRS
> publications is about as easy to understand as Sendmail configuration.

My wife is a professional tax preparer and she uses their (ahem, Windows) 
software for all her work. It works great - very lean and mean compared to the 
competition. And cheap too. This company seems like a class act.

Michael