On 07/06/2013 05:06 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
2013/7/6 vordoo <[email protected]>:
On 2013-07-04 16:45, sara fink wrote:
I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is accepted
by Israeli tax authorities?
Me too, but one that is not a proprietary web site, I would like to keep my
data & have the option to work off-line:-)
In a similar thread someone once wrote that gnucash could never be
certified by the tax authority for the reason that it is OSS and thus
you could modify it to function in ways deemed illegal by the tax
authorities....
If this is indeed the case then that is sad for us but I don't see how
we can change it...
Well maybe...
I guess one could have an open source web platform, of which the code
is vetted by the authorities but they only accept it when it's coming
through the webplatform which is guaranteed to run an acceptable
version.
Like that your data is guaranteed since you can always download the
software and your data and install it on your own server and the tax
authorities still have an application that you can't change because it
is running outside of your control.
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
From what I remember from a few years back when this discussion came up
at the time, there were two problems with getting both a free and
opensource application that is a legal accounting software:
1. There is a requirement is that you can't change the software (and the
data) -- same problem with there is with an open GSM device by the way,
where you are not allowed to distribute the firmware so that people
can't make the hardware do illegal stuff.
2. The other part is the very high costs involved in getting such a
software certified. I believe that it's on the order of multiple tens of
thousands. This means that unless you are a very reach philanthropist
you would not spend your money certifying the software.
On the other hand as memory serves, you can run your books using an open
source software and then submit the printouts to a certified accounted
to make a legal report. You may need to work with generic receipts in
parallel though.
Just my 2c
_______________________________________________
Linux-il mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
