[arcanedevice]

So it looks like the ATO are finally catching up with the Mac movement and 'considering' the development of e-tax for Mac.

http://www.zdnet.com...x-339334631.htm

Of course, the cynic in me wonders why they are going to use compatibility software rather than a native product but at least it is a start... And I wonder where we will actually end up as OS X progresses while they deliberate.

[Dylstra]

E-tax for Mac has been "under consideration" for at least five years.

[Dylstra]

arcanedevice, on 28 March 2012 - 08:51 AM, said:

So it looks like the ATO are finally catching up with the Mac movement and 'considering' the development of e-tax for Mac.

http://www.zdnet.com...x-339334631.htm

Of course, the cynic in me wonders why they are going to use compatibility software rather than a native product but at least it is a start... And I wonder where we will actually end up as OS X progresses while they deliberate.

E-tax has always been based on a version of Internet Explorer and so it wasn't possible to port it to Mac without starting from scratch. If they are going to overhaul e-tax then using a coding environment compatible with the most number of machines should seem obvious.

[pegi]

That would be really brilliant.

I am sick and tired of having to log on WIndows/parallels just for my taxes. Hope they do it before too long. They did say that 5 years ago indeed!

They would have to rewrite the whole code that is for sure. But there are thousands upon thousands using MAc I would start a discrimination court case...What do you think?

Dylstra, on 28 March 2012 - 10:13 AM, said:

E-tax has always been based on a version of Internet Explorer and so it wasn't possible to port it to Mac without starting from scratch. If they are going to overhaul e-tax then using a coding environment compatible with the most number of machines should seem obvious.