Indian tax departments use EXCEL VBA and force users to.use licensed microsoft excel to run the utilities so tax returns can be filed.

The reason given "for your own safety"

At the same time, the public tendering process makes no mention of the tools. The L1 uses excel and that inturn FORCES thousands and thousands into using paid excel.

I use masgrave but thats irrelevant. I also use libreoffice which works most of the time but yeah