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Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. BALLSTICLES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    888888

  2. Re:Data Types by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's nothing! One time I lost my data when I had to fend off a bear attack by beating it with my abacus along the uphill (both ways) path to school!