alt.os.linux - Turbotax equivalent

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Turbotax equivalent

Kevin

2002-11-27, 10:25 am

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has come across a program for linux for doing
federal and state tax. I swicthed to linux in the spring after my taxes
were done in hopes of seeing a tax program by the end of the year and have
search online, but came up with nothing. Hopefully I'm just overlooking
the issue. I would hate to have to return to windows to do my taxes. Does
anyone know of any software that can do such a task on linux?

Thanks for all your help,

Kevin

Paul Lutus

2002-11-27, 11:24 am

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:55:17 +0000, Kevin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has come across a program for linux for doing
> federal and state tax. I swicthed to linux in the spring after my taxes
> were done in hopes of seeing a tax program by the end of the year and
> have search online, but came up with nothing. Hopefully I'm just
> overlooking the issue. I would hate to have to return to windows to do
> my taxes. Does anyone know of any software that can do such a task on
> linux?

The present Quicken/TurboTax/etc. programs for Linux are pretty dismal,
where they exist at all. Most people who must have that class of program
and who want to run Linux, get a copy of VMware and run the prorgams in a
Windows virtual machine hosted by Linux.

VMware is not cheap, but it works well.

--
Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com

Tim Wunder

2002-11-27, 12:24 pm

On 11/27/2002 5:55 AM, someone claiming to be Kevin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has come across a program for linux for doing
> federal and state tax. I swicthed to linux in the spring after my taxes
> were done in hopes of seeing a tax program by the end of the year and have
> search online, but came up with nothing. Hopefully I'm just overlooking
> the issue. I would hate to have to return to windows to do my taxes. Does
> anyone know of any software that can do such a task on linux?
>
> Thanks for all your help,
>
> Kevin
>

I believe several companies, Intuit included, offer on line versions.
Like http://www.securetax.com/

HTH,
Tim

Kevin

2002-11-27, 5:25 pm

Tim Wunder wrote:

> On 11/27/2002 5:55 AM, someone claiming to be Kevin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has come across a program for linux for doing
>> federal and state tax. I swicthed to linux in the spring after my taxes
>> were done in hopes of seeing a tax program by the end of the year and
>> have
>> search online, but came up with nothing. Hopefully I'm just overlooking
>> the issue. I would hate to have to return to windows to do my taxes.
>> Does anyone know of any software that can do such a task on linux?
>>
>> Thanks for all your help,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>
> I believe several companies, Intuit included, offer on line versions.
> Like http://www.securetax.com/
>
> HTH,
> Tim

Thanks, that should take care of my needs. I'll use the online version.

Thanks again
Kevin

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