Australian Tax Office and Linux (Elizabeth Dodd)

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:47:43 +1100
> From: Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject: Australian Tax Office and Linux
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> Good news for Aussies on this list, especially those in Business. 
> The
> ATO has finally made a trial version of its Electronic Commerce
> Interface available for Linux.  Check it out here:
> 
> http://eci.ato.gov.au/download/linux.htm
> 
> To see how GUI friendly it was I used Ark to extract it to my home
> dir
> and from the desktop I made a link to the application script. Works
> very
> well. 
> 
> Sorry this is OT but probably the best way to reach Aussie
> businesses
> using Linux and gnucash
> 
> For those who are not Aussies, this ECI is the way the ATO deals
> electronically with businesses in Australia.  Until now it has been
> Windows only, with a rough version for Mac OSX.
> 
> Andrew Greig
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:15:57 +1100
> From: Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>
> Subject: Re: Australian Tax Office and Linux
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Message-ID: <200511101915.57545.edodd at billiau.net>
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> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:47, Andrew Greig wrote:
> > Good news for Aussies on this list, especially those in Business. 
> The
> > ATO has finally made a trial version of its Electronic Commerce
> > Interface available for Linux.  Check it out here:
> >
> > http://eci.ato.gov.au/download/linux.htm
> >
> > To see how GUI friendly it was I used Ark to extract it to my home
> dir
> > and from the desktop I made a link to the application script. Works
> very
> > well.
> >
> > Sorry this is OT but probably the best way to reach Aussie
> businesses
> > using Linux and gnucash
> >
> > For those who are not Aussies, this ECI is the way the ATO deals
> > electronically with businesses in Australia.  Until now it has
> been
> > Windows only, with a rough version for Mac OSX.
> >
> > Andrew Greig
> > Melbourne, Australia
> >
> 
> thanks for this great news
> i've been running win4lin to keep up with this tax office stuff -
> another win 
> for us.
> Liz
> 
Did you find any spyware in it? Rumour of the decade has always been that the reason they want 
businesses to download their software is so they can take a quick peek at your accounts every now 
and again and see what you aren't telling them (like adjustments the week before the tax is due!)! 
That's the reason an Accountant advised me to dump their original E-Record (on Win, which wasn't 
that great anyway) and since I switched to Linux I've had the perfect excuse not to download any 
ATO software (until now!).
- John Ready