[COLUG] Tax Prep on Linux

[Robert Foreman]

Yeah, I've used ies4linux in the past with marginal success on
moderately simple sites that require Internet Explorer. It doesn't
always work as expected.

However, it appears the H&R Block site is in fact letting me in now
after I disregard the unsupported OS warning and continue anyway.
Actually, I believe it did that last year as well--I simply forgot.
And it's not Firefox causing the warning. They appear to support that.
It's the OS detected they don't seem to like.

Hopefully all goes well again this year. I really don't feel like
switching services again.

On Jan 26, 2008 5:47 PM, Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 17:16 -0500, Robert Foreman wrote:
> > I was wondering what people are using for Tax Prep this year.
> >
> > For years I used Intuits web based service before it stopped working
> > with Linux and Firefox. For the past few years I have used H&R Block's
> > web tax service, but now it looks like it no longer allows Linux and
> > Firefox.
> >
> > I took a quick look at Open Tax Solver
> > (http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/index.html), but I'm not sure if
> > it would actually be any easier than doing them the old fashion way.
> >
> > >From the Open Tax Solver web site I discovered the Web Tax Service
> > (http://www.webtaxservice.com/services.php) link which looks
> > promising. Has anyone used this one?
> >
> > In the past I have also used the Ohio I-File service
> > (http://tax.ohio.gov/online_services/online_services_welcome.stm)
> > which worked well enough. It's pretty basic and it's free for state
> > and local school district taxes, but obviously doesn't help for
> > Federal taxes.
> >
> > My basic requirements are:
> > 1. It must work with Linux and Firefox. I do not run Windows and I
> > have absolutely no desire to purchase a copy just to do my taxes.
> > 2. I like the web based services and have generally given up on the
> > idea of ever having a usable Linux desktop based application.
> > 3. It should be reasonably priced for e-file supporting Scheduled C etc.
> > 4. Federal and State would be nice, but just Federal would be enough.
> > I could also go back to using the Ohio I-File service if I absolutely
> > had to.
>
> If you're not too picky about it being on Firefox, you could use
> ies4linux to install Internet Explorer on your Linux box.  The web page
> is here: http://www.tatanka.com.br/
>
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