One does have to account for the media's tendency to overdramatize things.
We do have a web form based submission system for indiviuals in Australia or you have the option of submitting through a tax agent. The business reporting currently has also a similar web portal, but I did see a plan in place to move business reporting towards all electronic reporting from software enabled for it in the near future. Assumption is that businesses will use and can afford products which are enabled for this. Not so good for charitable, not-for-profit and small startup businesses perhaps.There are software products similar to turbo tax currently available and in development here. It does seem that the information is available here in a series of circularly self referncing documents. Last time I explored this I ended up with 10-12 documents open in Libre Office and 2-3 instances of my browser each with 10-15 tabs open. I came away very little the wiser in terms of how I might write software to do this. It does seem to be a work in progress and I have noticed a few new documents produced by the consortium are now appearing which make it clearer and fill in gaps and available to the public at no cost. I think many countries have the common problem of governments governing for the benefits of major corporations at the expense of their constituents and handing off the reponsibilities of government off to private corporations to profit from. Our major political parties also put aside their differences here when it comes to turning the screws on the taxpayer so I think it is a problem by no means unique to the US. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
