On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > +1 I have been following these threads (on IT filings) and felt somewhere we were missing out on a constructive approach to apprise the I-T deptt of inappropriate design of these forms. I understand a similar situation exists with Sales Tax, which I have seen people struggling with, because ST also is nowadays online, and is intertwined with Excel (impossible to submit without having Excel process the form). I can't comment on how well the I-T form works this year, but a year or two back, I found that without having a very reliable connection, it was exceedingly risky to click on the links. An interrupted process was disastrous. Of course, this is not a FOSS issue as such, but compounds problems if one must also rely on an offline client application working properly. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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