Reinier
My search has found the following info
1) URA signed a contract with TCS ( Tata consultancy services ) which
only committed to working with IE 6 and Above and Microsoft Office.
because "this is what they could offer as a stable platform"
2) there is a URA Project team that really want to gain acceptance
from the tax payer for this system and would listen to your complaints
3) You would be expected to have "Fix suggestions" on hand that are
specific and not too general as you are the experts in this FOSS you
are talking about :-)
4) the Project team can be contacted via [email protected]
Kiggs
On Jan 14, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
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
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