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? > > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:21 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > 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 mate :-) > > > > > Anyway, seems to me that most of the 90% would be online lodgements > > > by Tax Agents.
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: a) FYJ (very rude, I'll not translate) b) Gross incompetent IT staff implementing online tax James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html