---
name: "taxbird"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "taxbird"
version: "0.15-1+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/taxbird"
---

# taxbird(1)

The first free Elster client (German Tax Declarations)

## NAME

Taxbird - The first free Elster client (German Tax Declarations)

## SYNOPSIS

**taxbird** *\[ GTK+ options \] \[ Bonobo options \] \[ GNOME options \] \[ Session options \] \[ options \]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **taxbird** command.

**Taxbird** is a GNOME based graphical user interface to gather and send tax declarations to the German inland revenue office.  This is a replacement for the proprietary application "ElsterFormular" maintained by the inland revenue offices.

## OPTIONS

- **--load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...**

  Dynamic modules to load

- **-h, --help**

  Show this help message

- **--usage**

  Display brief usage message

## GTK+ OPTIONS

- **--gdk-debug=FLAGS**

  Gdk debugging flags to set

- **--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS**

  Gdk debugging flags to unset

- **--display=DISPLAY**

  X display to use

- **--screen=SCREEN**

  X screen to use

- **--sync**

  Make X calls synchronous

- **--name=NAME**

  Program name as used by the window manager

- **--class=CLASS**

  Program class as used by the window manager

- **--gtk-debug=FLAGS**

  Gtk+ debugging flags to set

- **--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS**

  Gtk+ debugging flags to unset

- **--g-fatal-warnings**

  Make all warnings fatal

- **--gtk-module=MODULE**

  Load an additional Gtk module

## BONOBO OPTIONS

- **--oaf-ior-fd=FD**

  File descriptor to print IOR on

- **--oaf-activate-iid=IID**

  IID to activate

- **--oaf-private**

  Prevent registering of server with OAF

## GNOME OPTIONS

- **--disable-crash-dialog**

  Disable Crash Dialog

- **--disable-sound**

  Disable sound server usage

- **--enable-sound**

  Enable sound server usage

- **--espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT**

  Host:port on which the sound server to use is running

- **--version**

  Show version

## Session OPTIONS

**--sm-client-id=ID** Specify session management ID

- **--sm-config-prefix=PREFIX**

  Specify prefix of saved configuration

- **--sm-disable**

  Disable connection to session manager

## AUTHOR

Taxbird was written by Stefan Siegl \<stesie@brokenpipe.de\>.

This manual page was written by Marvin Stark \<marv@der-marv.de\>.