Ages ago I wrote a post here that whinged about MYOB charging a lot for a new version of the MYOB accounting software every year, just in order to get updates to the tax tables used for calculating PAYG income tax.

There’s been an ongoing chat between a few folk in the comment thread about how to solve this problem. And now there is an open source solution to the problem: MyTaxTables is a project on sourceforge that allow you to easily convert ATO tax tables into MYOB tax tables. The developers are looking for people to test the software, so get on over there and help them out. It looks like it only works on Windows at the moment.

Congrats to the team for putting the software together (whoever you are) and huge kudos to the community that made it happen!