" Mac users to get e-tax in 2013 " 😭
Mac users will again miss out on Mac-compatible e-tax software to do their taxes in 2012,
but the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has promised that this will be fixed by 2013.
The ATO's e-tax application, developed using Delphi, currently only supports Microsoft Windows,
but the release of the Delphi XE2 platform in September last year would have allowed the ATO
to port the e-tax application to OS X, because Delphi has a cross-platform
graphical user interface (GUI) framework called FireMonkey.
This would allow software developers to create GUIs that work on Windows, OS X and iOS,
but the ATO would first need to convert the e-tax GUI to FireMonkey to make it work.