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On 15/07/08 16:31, Will Kemp wrote:
> If anyone's considering it, it looks like e-tax will work perfectly 
> under Wine v1.
> 
> I just lodged my 2008 tax return using e-tax - using one of the XP 
> virtual machines i've got running under VirtualBox on my Fedora 9 system.
> 
> It did occur to me to try and use wine, but i didn't want to risk it 
> stuffing up halfway through. I'd never used e-tax before and didn't 
> really know what to expect.
> 
> However, i wish i had used wine now, as e-tax appears to work ok with 
> it. After i lodged my return, i thought i'd have a go at installing 
> e-tax in wine - and that went smoothly. I can open my saved e-tax file 
> and do everything with it that i'd expect to be able to do under windows.
> 
> The only thing i haven't been able to try was actually lodging it, but 
> given the faultless operation of all the other functions, i'd guess that 
> will work.

I tried etax 2008 on Wine 0.9.46 (default Wine installed on Ubuntu 
7.10).  It installed, but the text was almost unreadably blocky and 
cropped, and it stopped functioning not long after I entered a few basic 
personal details.

But after reading this, I might see if I can install Wine 1.x and try again.