The Gateway is an initiative by the Vermont Department of Taxes to develop Free / Open Source tax software. A Streamlined Sales Tax implementation has already been developed and has been used in production by the Vermont Department of Taxes since early 2007. A Modernized eFile client and submission viewer are currently under active development by the the Vermont Department of Taxes and the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

March 20, 2009 — the second release of the Gateway MeF Client Configuration program has been pushed out to the Source Forge mirrors. The application is a small utility written in Java for creating and editing Gateway MeF Client configuration files. This release adds support for encrypted configuration files and removes support for unencrypted configuration files. Download.

March 17, 2009 — the first release of the Gateway MeF Client Configuration program has been pushed out to the Source Forge mirrors. The application is a small utility written in Java for creating and editing Gateway MeF Client configuration files. Download.

March 6, 2009 — the project website has been redesigned and reorganized to reflect recent project developments. Please e-mail any questions or comments to Shawn Kasulka.