The budget comes and goes each year, and we are used to small tax changes, at least in recent years. For all businesses this means that there will be changes to the tax deducted from employees wages. A lot of businesses use MYOB and other accounting packages to do this.

And then, a close to the 30th of June a fax comes from MYOB, suggesting you need to buy the new version in order to get the tax table changes. And that is over $300 for a whole new version of the software or sign up to quite expensive support that in the past has been quite useless. This feels like exploitation when the tax changes are small — a few numbers changed in the tax tables. And the tax table is in a file in the application folder (on MYOB AccountEdge it is, anyway)

Over $300 to update a table? I think not. That’s exploiting small business. Come on MYOB, just distribute the tax table change for free. That would be fair and reasonable.

Or somebody else will probably update the tax table and make it a free download. Anybody want to do it?