Filing Australian tax statements with Linux
2009 December 15
A few weeks back I was ranting about not being able to file Australian taxes online using Linux. Pat Donelan decided to look into it, posted his findings, and emailed me to let me know about it.
The short version: the ATO refuses to support Linux, but there is a workaround available, involving installing the Sun Java 6 libraries and digging the necessary jar files out of an OSX package. Pat’s blog post has the most succinct breakdown of the steps as he performed them on his Ubuntu system.
Big props to the whirlpool.net.au forums for figuring it out, and to Patrick for bringing it to my attention.
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Unless I’m reading it wrong, that’s only for BAS, not personal income tax, which is Windows-only (not even an OS X client). And e-tax will remain a Windows-only Delphi app for the next three years.
Side note: your link colour is a bit hard to distinguish from text on my (cheap) LCD monitor, although it’s OK on my CRT.