[GTALUG] Grrr: CRA vs evince

[Mike Holloway]

> I think that the CRA should ensure that its forms are not in a
> proprietary format.

That a country would necessarily mediate their relationship with its taxpayers through the primacy of private investor interests is as hilarious as it is backwards, indeed.


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On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 at 10:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Background / Public Service Announcement:
> 
> This year, the CRA has started requiring taxpayers to file returns for
> joint accounts (I think joint accounts for spouses are not included).
> These are called "bare trusts" and one needs to
> 
> - register with the CRA to get a trust number (kind of like a SIN)
> 
> - file a T3 tax return (but there will be no tax)
> 
> - file a T3 Schedule 15 form for each beneficial owner.
> 
> The deadline for filing for 2023 is the end of this month.
> 
> 
> Linux-related:
> 
> The fillable form for Schedule 15 is in an Adobe-proprietary variant PDF.
> evince doesn't understand it but Firefox does.
> https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pbg/t3sch15/t3sch15-fill-23e.pdf
> 
> 
> Evince displays it as
> ==================================================================
> Please wait...
> If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the
> document, your PDF
> viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
> You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac,
> or Linux® by
> visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.
> For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit
> http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.
> Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft
> Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a
> trademark
> of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux
> is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other
> ==================================================================
> 
> On the other hand, the T3 tax return fillable PDF works fine with evince.
> https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pbg/t3ret/t3ret-fill-23e.pdf
> 
> 
> I think that the CRA should ensure that its forms are not in a
> proprietary format.
> 
> Today I learned that Adobe Reader again supports Linux. I'm pretty
> sure it will be horrible: large, not really native to my distro,
> closed source.---
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