This is the Australian Taxation Office's program to calculate and lodge Tax Returns
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Installs and runs successsfully. Moves from screen to screen, backwards and forwards. enables user to enter data. Creates and saves new files. Opens and saves old files.
What does not
Attempting to run the Pre-fill function pops an eTax application error with the following message:
1030: A problem has occurred. Please Try again. (Code:8818)
Wine log shows no errors were passed to Wine.
What was not tested
Given problems with Pre-fill, I didn't test the lodgement function.
Didn't take data entry past the Pre-fill function.
In order to do any testing on this program, a "TFN" or Tax File
Number is required. "123456782" passes validation, and can be used to
test operation of the software.
It is not, however, a valid number at the tax office, so you cannot use it to test verification or lodgement.
HOWTO
Use the latest Wine:
Make sure you are running the latest version of Wine (currently 1.1.26). You can check your version with the command:
wine --version
If you do not have the latest version, follow the instructions at Wine Binary Downloads
Use winetricks:
You need msxml via winetricks. Run this command:
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks && sh winetricks msxml4
Installing ETax:
Once you have the etax install file, run it with Wine:
$ msiexec /i etax2009_1.msi
Hopefully the entire process will complete successfully. If you encounter a problem, please file a bug or post a comment.
At present, securely verifying your identity and lodgement does not work. These steps must be carried out on a windows machine.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
eTax 2009 in Mac OS X
by Garry Brooke on Monday December 7th 2009, 20:07
I have been able to install and run eTax 2009 in Mac OS X 10.6.2 using the WineBottler package. I get the same problems as already reported: can't install updates, can't pre-fill. There were lots of errors before I realised that I had to completely close X11 and Wine after installing the "msxml4.dll" package. Otherwise, it seems to run.
So perhaps if we gave them a little encouragement they might be able to make future versions Wine compatible. It would certainly be easier for them than a complete Unix/MacOSX port.
