From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:58:41 -0600 > Most web-based tax services use end-to- > end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both times it is > "on > the wire": from you to them and from them to the IRS.
True in Canada also. Revenue Canada qualifies a service before the provider can legitimately offer it to the public. Haven't checked, but a likely requirement to maintain this qualification is that privacy be maintained. Making the substantial investment to offer the service and then publishing personal data would be too foolish. > I am not sure if the IRS supports direct electronic filing by individuals ... Rev. Ca. accepted electronic returns from individuals for 2008 and 2009. Didn't try in 2007. > ... if the tools to do so are available in Debian. Iceweasel worked with no difficulties. On 2011-03-09 11:10:39 John Hasler wrote: >Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. I'm near the bottom of the food chain. A person would have to be quite desperate for reading material to bother with my return. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
