On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Terence Monteiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 2011/5/25 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> >>> >>> Friends >>> we have tried to mail/contact the Income Tax dept to request that they >>> should not have only MS Excel upload format for the Income tax returns, but >>> there is no response... >>> any ideas / constructive suggestions on what we could do.. >>> regards >> >> http://freedom-matters.in/ -> By Terence Monteiro from DeepRoot Linux. He >> is the first name on this page http://fosscomm.in/HallOfFame :) > > Kindly note that the ITR1 form for filing income tax returns is successfully > migrated to LibreOffice / OpenOffice for this year (Assessment year > 2011-2012) and available on the same site, http://freedom-matters.in . > Kindly spread the word. Also, I just successfully filed my own returns using > the migrated spreadsheet using LibreOffice 3.3.2 :-). > The goal of this endeavour is that no person who wants to file ITR and does > not have MS Excel should suffer because of this partiality by the > Government. But we are still a long way from this. The problem is, every > year the form changes, since tax rules change, so this migration is going to > be difficult in future. We need to get the Government / IT Department to > stop favouring MS Excel. They are only making it harder for non-MS Office > users. Kindly lets continue this discussion and effort to put pressure on > the concerned people to make a change in this department. > -- > Regards, > Terence Monteiro. >
Can you prepare a note on the compatibility issues, and the problems faced while porting into libreOffice. If you agree FSF India will use your notes and submit a representation with the IT department. -- GN _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
