Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 7, 2007 @07:00PM from the great-white-mix-up dept.

CokeJunky writes "During a weekend maintenance window, the Canada Revenue Agency (Fills the same role as the IRS south of the border) experienced data corruption issues in the tax databases. As a precaution, they have disabled all electronic filling services, 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."

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Re:DST patch broke CRA? by Adeptus_Luminati · 2007-03-07 22:08 · Score: 3, Informative

Oops, forgot the URLy:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070307.wtaxes0307/BNStory/Technology/home

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Re:DST patch broke CRA? by Run4yourlives · 2007-03-08 06:29 · Score: 3, Informative

Because the fucking Americans changed the damn time change dates and we were dumb enough to follow them.