[ubuntu-za] SARS EFiling

[Chris Schoonbee]

Jonathan Hitchcock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06 Feb 2009, at 12:52 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>   
>> I am having problems filing my tax return using eFiling.
>>
>> I have Opera 9.62 and Adobe Reader 8.13
>>
>> Filling in the forms is no problem, but when trying to "Save Online"  
>> or
>> "File" I get an error message
>> "Cannot handle content type: text/html; charset=utf-8"
>>
>> Any advice please?  (Yesterday was the cutoff date!)
>>     
>
> You have to use the Adobe plugin in your browser.  If you install the  
> acroread-plugins, it will give you the plugin for firefox - I have no  
> idea about Opera.
>
> You can't use the standalone Adobe Reader - it uses the browser's  
> login session to submit the form, it seems.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jonathan
>
>
>   
That's the trouble we incorrigible procrastinators get into for leaving 
things to the last minute as usual. :-)
I also got the same error yesterday using Firefox.  (I had to print it 
out and take it to SARS physically to beat the deadline, but I least I 
did not have join the queues for further help.)

I already have the Firefox Adobe Reader 8.0 plugin enabled (as Jonathan 
suggested) so there must be something else wrong.

By the way, I tried to submit it (from a copy on a usb stick) from a 
friend's MSWindows computer with Adobe 9.0 and also got an error (but it 
did not say what the problem was). 

Please let us know if and how you come right.

Cheers,
Chris

I see that Jonathan says we needed the Firefox Adobe plugin. If you try 
that, won't you let us know if it works.