What an embarrassing start.
All property owners are called upon to submit their declaration for the new property tax by the end of October – electronically, of course, since we live in a modern country.
There are 36 million “units”: land, homes, apartment buildings, condominiums, as well as commercial space and buildings.
One could calculate what that means in terms of daily access to forms on the Internet.
Has anyone done that?
Apparently, the financial management was surprised by the rush.
Anyone who wanted to fulfill their civic duty shortly before leaving could experience a nasty surprise.
Many were fobbed off with the remark: "Due to the enormous interest in the forms for the property tax reform, there are currently restrictions on availability."
On request, reference is made to user requests from well over 100,000 simultaneous accesses.
But this explanation is pretty mau.
Because the tax authorities had to design the system for precisely such magnitudes when they brought one thing and one together: a large number of properties with a tight deadline.
Anyone who recently wondered why citizens are only granted four months for tax assessments, while the tax authorities and local authorities are given more than two years for tax assessments, now suspect that things don't always run smoothly at the tax authorities.