Oopsie.
Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System
During a weekend maintenance window, the [a href="vny!://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/agency/updates/eservices-e.html"]Canada Revenue Agency[/a] [a href="vny!://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175"]experienced data corruption issues[/a] in the tax databases. As a precaution, they have [a href="vny!://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070307.wtaxes0307/BNStory/Technology/home"]disabled all electronic filling services[/a], and paper based returns will be stacking up in the mail room, as returns cannot be filed at all until the problem is fixed. Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the social insurance number, and the date of birth were swapped.
Hooray.
Well, that's just greeeattt.
Yeah, but will we be charged extra tax to pay for them to put it right again?
Of course. Would they have it otherwise?