On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 12:07 -0700, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > Rogan Creswick wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> So what does that long history do for you in TY N+1 ? > >> > > I like not needing to remember when I changed from TaxSlayer to pen & > > paper, to Fiducial, to TurboTax to .... > > > > The fewer places I might have to go to get previous year data (when I > > loose track of my personal copies), the better -- all other things > > being equal. > > > > --Rogan > Our consulting accountant (who we pay for 1 hour to review our > self-prepared return, and who usually saves us 2x his fee + the annual > cost of TT, which is Schedule C and E deductible anyway) is a better > TurboTax support tech than anyone employed by Intuit - he's helped me > force TT to do my bidding in some relatively challenging scenarios (1031 > exchanges, odd depreciation allocations, Shcedule E loss > carry-forwards,etc.). > > My biggest beef w/TT (the download & install versions) is how much the > ui/workflow changes from year to year - kind of gratuitous, and adds > unnecessary overhead to what should be a fairly repetitive process... > Yeah, running TT and Quicken on WinXP in VirtualBox is a bit > distasteful, but works just fine. > > Joe
I think you guys are missing the whole point of the challenge. The challenge is to replace TurboTax with a Linux based tax preparation program. Talking about whether or not TurboTax online works and how to do your taxes with a stone chisel or chickens misses the point. I would like to see some discussion on how to get a project going to write a tax preparation program for Linux. Yeah there should be a Windows version too, so maybe Java and/or LISP should be used. I'm curious why people talk about whether or not TurboTax online works and not about what it would take to replace it with a Linux compatible program? How do you get a project started on sourceforge? Who wants to join me? What will a sourceforge project cost? I don't know about anyone else on here, but I don't want to be forced to run Vista or Windows 7 to do my taxes. First off, I don't have anything better than a P4 with 512 megs of ram. Second off, I'd rather not do my taxes by hand as e-filing is much nicer. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
