On Thursday 27 May 2010 18:49:20 Mayuresh wrote: > Income tax department provides MS Excel based software (Excel sheets) for > preparing income tax returns on this page: > > https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/individual_huf.do > > They state MS Excel as a system requirement for using this. > > If anyone has tried/succeeded in e-filing returns using this software on > Linux (using Openoffice / otherwise) please do post your experience. > > I could see that the file seems to open fine in oocalc and I could also > enable Macros which were disabled by default. Worry is more about > following aspects: > > - Functioning of all macros properly (non-working of some of which may > cause data integrity issues. Worse if such issues are hard to notice.) > - Generation of a "valid" xml file that will be loadable correctly on > e-filing website.
Not entirely orthogonal and OT but this may be of some interest of FOSS lovers http://www.taxguru.in/government-policy/draft-policy-on-open-standards-for-e- governance-available-for-public-feedback-public-review-closes-on-3rd- june-2010.html -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
