[Ilugc] Re: [ot]any online income tax returns efiling experience under linux + 00 experience?

[p.sriram]

Sri Ramadoss M <shriramadhas at ...> writes:

> i heard its asking for .xls upload. if thats the case we need to show our
> protest.

yes, we should protest IF, but it does not. the upload is an xml file, the 
same as last year. i have e-filed my return last year and this year also. 
unfortunately, the it department gives you one tool only to create the xml 
file and that is an excel spread sheet (with macros) that will probably only 
run on microsoft excel. however, they also give you the full schema and give 
you other tools so you can write your own application to create the xml file 
(in the developers portion of their web site). i have not tried this part 
myself, but i see that there are several commercial offerings, typically with 
web front ends, that allow you create (and file) the online return xml.

sriram