On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:59:53 -0400 Greg Knittl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there any other free/libre tax calculation engines out there? I > would think the technical challenges are going to be similar around > the world. There may be similar political challenges to getting tax > authorities to open up their interfaces. It would be very helpful to > have examples of other countries where people do use free/libre tax > software to submit their returns electronically. There's a software called geierlein [1] for german tax forms, and there was an older software called taxbird by the same author. Geierlein is a rewrite of Taxbird, relies on Javascript and runs as a firefox application. Both are/were free software. However geierlein can not be used to submit the main tax forms, only so-called "Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung". The german tax stuff has different APIs and only one of them is allowed to be accessible by third party software. (however since a while there's a fully web based solution available, so at least no need to have windows any more.) [1] https://stesie.github.io/geierlein/ -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: [email protected] GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
