> Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:36:57 +0530 > From: Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] ITR e-filing on Linux > To: "Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List" <plug-mail@plug.org.in> > Message-ID: > <aanlktilxchm5wjafmkbqepfkh7yv6s9ybjmhkun7k...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> > wrote: > > Income tax department provides MS Excel based software > (Excel sheets) for > > preparing income tax returns on this page: > > > > https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/individual_huf.do > > > > They state MS Excel as a system requirement for using > this. > > > > If anyone has tried/succeeded in e-filing returns > using this software on > > Linux (using Openoffice / otherwise) please do post > your experience. > > > > I could see that the file seems to open fine in oocalc > and I could also > > enable Macros which were disabled by default. Worry is > more about > > following aspects: > > > > - Functioning of all macros properly (non-working of > some of which may > > ?cause data integrity issues. Worse if such issues are > hard to notice.) > > - Generation of a "valid" xml file that will be > loadable correctly on > > ?e-filing website. > > With the Indian e-Governance scene, typically the "aam > janta" has no > choice in this matter. S/he is caught in a > catch-22 situation - > heads they win, tails you loose. > > You can protest with the authorities, it they at all get > back to you - > the response will be "Everyone is using Windows and MS > Office, aapke > paas Windows nahi hai?" > > There is some discussion going on about using open > standards which > includes document format but let's see how it > progresses. This is > the kind of thing that encourages software piracy in my > opinion. In > this case the Govt. is mandating it's citizens to use MS > Windows > desktop and the MS Office suite; kind of an endorsement of > MS > products) > > I end up using my accountants Windows desktop to do such > activities - YMMV. > > -- Arun Khan you can submit a writ petition under MRTP act against this indirect compaltion, in the interest of public. the million doller question is who will do this?
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