__/ [ achmed.jones@xxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 16:54 \__
> On Mar 11, 11:34 am, "amicus_curious" <a...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Stephan Rose" <ker...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> news:KP6dnUyJN4D-tGnYRVnyhgA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> > achmed.jo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> >> On Mar 11, 8:08 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> TaxGeek 2006 - Your Open Source Solution to Tax Time
>>
>> >>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> >>> | TaxGeek is a Mozilla-based US income tax program that includes
>> >>> | Form 1040, Schedules A, B, C, C-EZ, D, E, K-1 (1065), SE (Short
>> >>> | and Long), W2, Form 8880, Form 8863, Form 3903, and Form 2441
>> >>> | with access to most other files as PDFs.
>> >>> `----
>>
>> >>>http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> >>> Another common excuse bites the dust.
>>
>> >> More like Linux tax program eats the dust.
>>
>> >> 1. Will it import my Quickbooks data?
>>
>> > - How many windows programs will import Quickbooks' proprietary data?
>>
>> > - How many other proprietary formats from other applications does
>> > Quickbooks
>> > support?
>>
>> >> 2. Will it import and export my online banking data?
>>
>> > - Does your bank support a non-proprietary quickbooks format? If so,
>> > chances
>> > are...yes.
>>
>> >> 3. Will it allow me to send my information to my accountant so that he
>> >> can import it into his accounting program?
>>
>> > - What program is your accountant using? Does it support non-proprietary
>> > formats that are compatible across a wide range of applications (not
>> > just quickbooks) ?
>>
>> >> 4. Will it import my online stock trading data?
>>
>> > - Again, what format is your online stock trading data...
>>
>> >> 5. Does it have any sort of audit advisor?
>> >> 5. Multiple levels of "What if"?
>> >> 6. An interview based program?
>>
>> > Personally I don't use tax programs, I let an accountant handle it
>> > properly
>> > for me as it makes things significantly easier and if things go wrong
>> > it's his problem not mine.
>>
>> > So I can't answer your questions specifically to that program. I
>> > coulnd't answer a single question in regards to Quickbooks either
>> > though...
>>
>> > That said, you'll always have a potential problem if you are moving from
>> > one
>> > application that only supports their own proprietary format as no other
>> > applictation (windows and linux alike) could possibly support it. It's
>> > the vendors way of trying to make you dependant on them.
>>
>> Why post at all if you have no use for the program and no experience with
>> TurboTax? If you always use an accountant, you have no needs in this
>> regard
>> at all. If you use TurboTax, which a lot of tax accountants use under the
>> covers anyway, you will appreciate the automatic interfaces to banking,
>> investment, and employee data. TurboTax goes to my bank, my ETrade
>> account, and looks up the filed data for my W-2 forms automatically and
>> enters the
>> data in the correct spots on the correct forms. It handles AMT and
>> investment loss carry forwards, too.- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
>
>
> Why?
> Because he has to defend the Linux mantra to the end of the earth.
>
> Take a look at what passes for knowledge in COLA.
>
> Ask a question about an alternative for Photoshop and you will be told
> Gimp, which isn't bad, but is no Photoshop.
> Ask a question about an alternative for Sony Vegas and you will be
> told Audacity or Ardour. Both reasonable, but
> no Vegas.
>
> Ask for an alternative to Quicken and you will be told Moneydance,
> whose name really fits because you will be dancing alright trying
> to make your data work with industry standard programs like Quicken
> and those that your online bank uses.
>
> So you see, the lies and half truths that get posted in COLA are just
> that.
>
> When they are taken outside the safe confines of the COLA abbey, they
> get subjected to the normal standards the rest of the earth
> uses and they fold like cheap cameras.
>
> There is no point in trying to debate anything in COLA.
> They will call you names, attack you, tell you to RTFM and so forth
> because they are crazy loons.
Your posting style (here and elsewhere) makes me wonder if you are
flatfish+++ under a new gown. Regardless, your personal attacks and
crossposting (disruptive search for an audience) make you an unethical
poster. I will reply to none of your subsequent messages as you are now in
my filter.
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