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I am very grumpy right now

Posted Jan 15, 2009 15:11 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
Parent article: The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

We use Ledger-SMB, a fork of SQL-Ledger. It's basically terrible software, but it comes the closest to doing what we need.

Unfortunately, today I tried to update an invoice. I got an SQL error and the invoice disappeared from the system! Needless to say, an accounting system that eats entries does not inspire confidence. :-(

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Posted Jan 15, 2009 16:39 UTC (Thu) by hippy (guest, #1488) [Link]

May be there needs to be lobbying for electronic submission rather than printing stuff on dead trees.

Some tax filing in the UK can now be done electronically. FileThyme (http://www.paythyme.com/) from the guys as Clockwork Software can submit these and it is GPL.

Richard

Electronic tax filing instead of software to print forms

Posted Jan 15, 2009 23:25 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

May be there needs to be lobbying for electronic submission rather than printing stuff on dead trees.

Most income tax filing in the US is electronic now, and I'm sure the number of cases that can be filed electronically grows every year. LWN-size businesses are some years off.

What is missing is the ability for a taxpayer to file electronically directly with the tax collector. Instead, the tax collector certifies, at great expense, a few tax preparers to file electronically on behalf of taxpayers. Those preparers in turn accept electronic submissions of various kinds from taxpayers.