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Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by jliptzin »

chimeracoder wrote: post #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 w…

That's a typo (I had to actually type out the line word by word instead of copying and pasting because highlighting the text wouldn't work for reasons stated in the post :)

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by Frozenlock »

cperciva wrote: post #27
sheetjs wrote: post #2

The 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".

They also only support IE. (Or at least they did last year.)

You can also find some documentation speaking about Netscape.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ntcs/scrty_tls-eng.html

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

protomyth wrote: post #20
cschneid wrote: post #4

My only guess is a batch job that really really doesn't want data changing out from under it (and the devs were too lazy to batch up the next days changes to be submitted post-job).

I think you have it. 11:45PM sounds suspiciously like the batch job kicks off at midnight and should be done by opening of business the next day. I figure if it looks like it will go over 8AM then they have to kill it because the office staff is going to change data regardless of what IT wants.

2014: I can take credit cards for my startup in 10 minutes with Stripe, but Delaware needs 8+ hours to run a batch job to collect taxes.

W. T. F.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by joev_ »

deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

So... on a crappier browser this would have worked? Heh, nice to know that they never bothered to open this in any modern browsers.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by sureshv »

jpmattia wrote: post #28

Is 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.

There are two ways to calculate your Delaware taxes (assuming registered as a C-Corp) - the authorized shares method and the assumed par value method. The online annual filing form makes this quite easy to calculate. Unless you are generating huge revenue then par value is the way to go.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by antidaily »

jliptzin wrote: post #13
deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

Of course, the giant div! I use those all the time.

Maybe it's a loading spinner/graphic. Haha.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by [deleted] »

joev_ wrote: post #34
deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

So... on a crappier browser this would have worked? Heh, nice to know that they never bothered to open this in any modern browsers.

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Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by arikrak »

> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter[n] Time.”

We're not used to sites like Amazon being shut down during nighttime hours, but I've come across it before for government sites. For example, when I filed a corporation with the IRS, after I answered a few pages, the site said I should come back during work hours. They probably have a person at the other end who handles the forms...

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