ETax

What works

Install and run, checking for updates, input of data, menu/navigation bar.

What does not

Help.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Pre-filling, printing, submission.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Installed MSXML4 using winetricks: winetricks msxml4 Downloaded ETax2013 from ATO website: wget http://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/etax2013/etax2013_1.msi Installed: wine msiexec /i etax2013_1.msi Integrated help system does not work, but opening the HTML file in Firefox (Chromium does not work) lets you access all the help. It can be found in [Remove the " (x86)" part if using 32 bit wine]: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/etax2013/help/client_nav.html Screen refresh problems if resizing the window, items are redrawn on mouse-over or navigation away/back to the page. Although pre-filling, printing and submission were not tested, I am expecting them to work fine.

The following method was tested on Linux Mint 15 and Arch Linux, but should work on other distros such as Ubuntu.

From a command prompt:

winetricks msxml4
wget http://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/etax2013/etax2013_1.msi
msiexec /i etax2013_1.msi

This downloads and installs the Microsoft XML libraries, downloads the ETax installer and then runs the installer package.

The in-built help system will not work, however opening the HTML file in Firefox (Chromium does not work) will let you access all the help documents.

For a 64-bit Wine installation run:

firefox '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/etax2013/help/client_nav.html'

For a 32-bit Wine installation run:

firefox '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/etax2013/help/client_nav.html'

The inbuilt updater does actually download an updated installer package. The program is supposed to exit and run this new installer, however the new installer never launches.

After ETax exits, run the following command to launch the installer manually:

msiexec /a ~/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/Temp/ETAX/etax2013_1.msi

Alternatively, repeat the original installation process (except MSXML4):

wget http://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/etax2013/etax2013_1.msi
msiexec /i etax2013_1.msi

For testing purposes the following tax file number can be used:

123456782