Pay your taxes

If you are registered as a company or freelancer in Germany your are required by law to submit your tax reports electronically since the beginning of last year. Initially they only offered a wonderful Windows program. I think this year they managed to create an on-line java tool that leaves you more choice concerning your OS.

Taxbird is a free alternative for Linux that has been available for half a year now. Had no problems with it so far and so I added it to the portage tree as app-office/taxbird.

The software has been accredited by the ministry of finance so you are actually allowed to use it ;) Never ever admit that you do, though. I called their telephone support once. Funny experience.

Posted at: 18:42 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo