Just one quick comment.
Just raising the compatibility issues and pointing it out to the
government will not help.
The main question the microsoft "tota's " will repeat is, "who will use
this aftterall? every one uses excel ".
So it is also important to convince them that a large number of people
don't use microsoft office.
And today it is not completely false difficult to do.
The quesetion is if the work is worth while.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 27/07/11 15:37, Vickram Crishna wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Terence Monteiro
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Debayan Banerjee
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2011/5/25 Guru गुरु <[email protected]
<mailto:[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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