{"id":1272,"date":"2009-05-10T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T21:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2009-05-10T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T21:50:50","slug":"tax-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/tax-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/hmrc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/hmrc-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"HMRC&#039;s Employer CD-ROM for Linux\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1271\" \/><\/a>I (or more precisely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complexli.com\/\">Complexli<\/a>) registered as an employer last week.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/\">HMRC<\/a> sent me a CD-ROM with some programs to help me calculate our employees&#8217; tax and national insurance.<\/p>\n<p>I was just about to shut down Linux and start up Windows, assuming that it would be a Windows-only program, when I read the accompanying notes and was pleasantly surprised to see that the disk contained versions for Windows, Mac and Linux!<\/p>\n<p>I had a few problems installing the Linux version because my laptop is 64-bit (to be specific, I had to install the 32-bit version of libsqlite3 manually beforehand), but now it works beautifully!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to realise that a tiny bit of my tax money has been spent developing Linux software!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I (or more precisely, Complexli) registered as an employer last week. As a consequence, HMRC sent me a CD-ROM with some programs to help me calculate our employees&#8217; tax and national insurance. I was just about to shut down Linux and start up Windows, assuming that it would be a Windows-only program, when I read the accompanying notes and was pleasantly surprised to see that the disk contained versions for Windows, Mac and Linux! I had a few problems installing the Linux version because my laptop is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}