They don't allow late march filing on the site, some genius thought that instead of showing a pop-up or error message he just freezes the page. Same behavior noticed when we tried filing during off hours.
WTF Delaware?
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#22I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.
Way to totally miss the article's point.
Yes, as I write this, people are getting stabbed, shot, raped, killed by cancer, and mangled in car wrecks. And that's way worse than having to hassle with a broken web site.
But there are people reading this board who can actually build functional web sites, and who are appalled that the government managed to mess up so badly. That's the point.
Re: WTF Delaware?
#23> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.”
I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog.
The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover).
The only other business I've seen do this was my previous landlord[1]. They used to let me pay my rent online. However, their system only let you pay during "standard business hours", completely negating (for me) the convenience of an online payment - I like to take care of my bills after-hours at home, not at work, thank you very much.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H
[1] Unlike B&H, the management company was not run by Hasidim.
Re: WTF Delaware?
#24If you open it in IE, it asks to display insecure content. If you click yes, the site works. (You can click buttons). They must have linked a .js that wasn't on a https.
So they just forgot their "Optimized for Internet Explorer" badge.
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#25> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this w…
Government sites in the UK have been known to do this as well.
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#26Seems like their website wasn't suppose to be served over a secure connection, just use http://corp.delaware.gov/paytaxes.shtml and all is fine.
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#27The IRS EIN Application also has "hours": http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... > Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
The Canada Revenue Agency's web apps are closed overnight too (albeit only for 3 hours). My understanding from talking to one of their sysadmins is that they use this time to perform backups and software upgrades because it's less error-prone than trying to do those "live".
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#28Is this the franchise tax that depends on the assets of the company? The one where the registered agents routinely send estimated payments invoices with assumptions far in excess of the actual taxes?
Excuse my tinfoil hattery, but I have to wonder whether the accuracy of payments has something to do with the lack of website usability.
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#29I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.
Right, I found this amusing: "I hope by now you’ve seen the irony here. Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars! That’s how broken our system is." Our system is so broken that most new corporations are formed in a comp…
And what are those problems?
That I can choose at which 'location' I incorporate for something that is immaterial?
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#30> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this w…
It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.