On 4/10/19 10:33 PM, David Cousens wrote:
Just noticed this post. https://news.yahoo.com/free-irs-software-filing-taxes-191746938.html?fbclid=IwAR3-GIPM3S6SazRqcyKb1Lywu4wMhtWB9Je8YU_cK_usuW4FLf13y07ATJs. Impact on the use of GnuCash for Tax preparation in the US could be profound. Looks like the US government is trying to head the same way as the Brits. Australia has done something similar recently in that one has to join a consortium of software developers (at a significant fee) to get full access to the information needed to build in software communication to the ATO. The ATO no longer publishes the protocols in use and has outsourced developmemnt of the protocols to a non-government consortium
I'm don't think will have any effect on Gnucash today because Gnucash does not do tax preparation: filling out IRS forms and submitting them electronically to the IRS. I doubt it would, given the yearly changes in the forms and regulations. Never the less it is discouraging news. The IRS could, and should provide active forms, with the info they have on taxpayers pre-entered and with interactive help for entering the rest of it. The U.S. Democrats and Republicans seem to have no problems coming together when the target in screwing American tax payers to the benefit of large corporations. Business as usual. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
