[PLUG] ITR e-filing on Linux

[म.हा.सा.ग.र]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM, steve <steve at lonetwin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/27/2010 06:49 PM, Mayuresh wrote:
>>
>> If anyone has tried/succeeded in e-filing returns using this software on
>> Linux (using Openoffice / otherwise) please do post your experience.
>>
>
> This issue is brought up every year on almost many Indian foss mailing
> lists. Last year someone did something about it:

http://lists.fosscom.in/pipermail/network-fosscom.in/2009-September/001405.html
http://freedom-matters.in/

> I don't know yet if the IT-R form is the same this year too, but in any
> case, methinks publishing and popularizing this effort would be a nice
> thing.
>

i used to have tough time with few of accounting team members needing
MSOffice only for this filing purpose and the link above removes that
last hurdle which till now prevented complete move to OpenOffice...

There are few good things related to INDIC in OO.o 3.2 (e.g. native
numbering for foot-notes etc.) which were not existing in previous
versions of OpenOffice that definitely helped a friend of mine in
completely publishing a मराठी work in देवनागरी.