Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi all, Just got this through mail. So now might be a good time to add some pressure! -tax 2006 is closed and e-tax 2007 is under development. http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/39979.htm Published: 28 Feb 2007 Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:

[SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-28 Thread elliott-brennan
Sorry to jump in to this late in the piece. Is this about downloading the ATO application to complete the Tax Pack online versus having a webpage that one completes? I had read ages ago - just before the current tax year started - that the ATO electronic tax pack application will run under W

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-28 Thread Darren Hannah
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:51 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > On 2/28/2007, "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> My own guess is that it's probably more of a distro thing. > >> > >> Should they support Debian, or Fedora, or Ubuntu, or Slackware, or > >>

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One needs only to look at what a nice job the census folk did (every browser > I > tried worked perfectly) to be able to declare that: To be fair, collecting a census is quite a bit simpler than collecting a tax return. The sheer size of

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread jam
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK... so why CAN'T the ATO get their act together and be platform > independent? is there a real reason or just the usual stuff-you attitude > that some parts of the tax office adopt? What is the technical reason? > does anyone know? >

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On 2/28/2007, "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My own guess is that it's probably more of a distro thing. > >Should they support Debian, or Fedora, or Ubuntu, or Slackware, or >Gentoo, or Mandriva, or some minority distro, "and why not my own >preference"? > >Should they package to rp

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread david
OK... so why CAN'T the ATO get their act together and be platform independent? is there a real reason or just the usual stuff-you attitude that some parts of the tax office adopt? What is the technical reason? does anyone know? On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:21 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Wed, 28 Fe

Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:55:14 +1100 bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And since after JUly 1 self funded retirees etc over 60 will get > their pensions tax-free, that probably eliminates a few more % due to > many above that age not having net access and/or being computer > illiterate. Watch it ma

[SLUG] Re: ATO online

2007-02-27 Thread bill
And since after JUly 1 self funded retirees etc over 60 will get their pensions tax-free, that probably eliminates a few more % due to many above that age not having net access and/or being computer illiterate. Anyway, seems to me that most of the 90% would be online lodgements by Tax Agents.