Hi, As some might know the URA is switching to an online system for filing your taxes. Very commendable, i hope it will help them with their efficiency.
Unfortunatly, there are a few issues when trying to use the system when using openoffice and firefox. the site is http://www.ura.go.ug Some are small things, for example, the datepicker used when you create an account shows a bit funny in firefox. More difficult is the Excell spreadsheet that you have to download, fill in and post back. We don't have a copy of excell, but in openoffice we see a LOT of vbscript and we get some very funny errors For example the check on some fields is not checking for a Number between 0 and XXXXX, but it is checking for "more than 0 and less than 15 characters" OpenOffice thinks that Numbers are no characters, so "60000" is invalid, but "60000abc" is. I dont think that is what the check should do. As Linux and FOSS community, what would you suggest is the way forward in helping the URA to support people in Uganda that choose to use free software? -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: www.startyourbusiness.ug _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
