I submitted mine a while ago but I do remember having problems getting it working under wine. Your right that it used to work last year and now it doesn't. Perhaps try downgrading wine to the version that was current around tax time 07. E-Tax isn't the only software requiring a proprietary OS available from a government site. The vicroads hazard perception test training software you need to practice with before going to get your P's also requires Windows and doesn't run on wine. http://clt.vicroads.vic.gov.au/HazardPerception/HazardDL.aspx Tom On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:44:40 +1100, "Ben Sturmfels" <ben@stumbles.id.au> said:

How did people go with submitting their income tax returns this year? I'd previously been able to use ATO's E-Tax program running with Wine on GNU/Linux. That didn't work for me this year though, so I decided to suck it up and submit it on paper instead.

I've also made a start on a letter to the Tax Commissioner about requiring a proprietary operating system for submitting your tax return online. I'd certainly want to see E-Tax as free software eventually, but in the short-term, would settle for it being officially supported on GNU/Linux.

If anyone is interested, I'm happy to send them a copy of the letter when it's done.

Cheers, Ben

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