US taxes

[David Bandel]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:36:53 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> 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.

You compare something as simple as a sendmail.mc file to taxes?  If
only taxes were that simple, we wouldn't need hundreds of hundred+
page publications to explain it, just a README file and a few
pointers.

And shout when you have sendmail problems, they're easily resolved.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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