On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:

>   This year, I used an online service, http://www.taxactonline.com, to do my
> personal taxes.  It worked just fine under Linux, and was quite cheap, too.
> (The tax calculations are actually "free"; they just charge to submit them
> electronically.)  I do not know that system would meet your needs (I
> suspect, in fact, that it would not), but it does give hope that, despite
> Microsoft's best efforts, some things are migrating to a platformless,
> web-based world.

I did my taxes with www.turbotax.com -- it has partnered with several
sites which allow you to file for 50% off ($15 total).  When I tried to
run it in Mozilla, it whined that it didn't support my browser; I brought
it up in Netscape, and it looked -horrible-.  BUT, it got me past the
check-for-non-compliant-browser; after that, I just cut-and-pasted the URL
into Mozilla, and finished off the return quite happily.  I imagine that
Opera, with its "pick which browser you want me to present myself as"
feature would've bypassed this problem quite handily.

$.02 (plus tax, shipping, and handling),

-Ken


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