[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[David Favro]

Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> David Favro wrote:
>   
>> What do you use for filing federal income taxes? 
>>     
>
> I can't guarantee anything for this year, but the online version of 
> TurboTax worked fine in Linux + FireFox for me either last year or the 
> year before.
>   
I haven't tried them for years, but the online versions used to have
large numbers of restrictions that prohibit them for me, like:
* Don't work after April 15, so can't use it if you file an extension.
* Don't have many of the schedules and worksheets that I need for my
business.
* Are so poorly developed as to be almost unusable (but that's what I
think about most web-software -- what a step backwards!  Much of the
text-based software of the '80s was much more usable than most of the
web-software of today).