Shane G wrote: Welcome back Shane! Great to see you're back to tease us with your good spirited posts! ;-)
>I can't believe none of the Aussies subscribed have commented. I think you're the last Aussie here in IBM-MAIN, unless I missed someone... If there are others, please shout! >Our Social Security people (whatever they are called this week) have also been >getting hammered for years about their stone-age computer environment. OK, >M204 is flint, but what the hell; they too run decent kit. It works, and it'd >better keep working. Been there, seen it, tremble at the thought of the dills >proposing it all be chucked out for SAP on Windoze or some-such ... Let's hope >the proponents for Linux continue to have some wins. About South Africa own tax collector: We have what they call - 'SARS e-Filing'. You, businesses and employers do all the taxing work online. Of course, you can still mail (snailmail in case you don't know ;-D ) or waste petrol/diesel to deliver your papers at a tax office. As published on their website: '2.7 million individual taxpayers and 350 000 businesses ' are enjoying this free e-filing system. You get your latest tax status within a few hours if you're just earning a simple salary or pension. Or it can take some days if your tax papers are somewhat complex. You will get a notification in about a week if you have to pay more tax or you will get a refund. ... back to our scheduled mainframe discussion... I certainly know SARS is having a mixture of different computers: mainframes, midrange computers of various flavours including Linux and PCs/Laptops with different operating systems. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
