SARS eFiling still unsupportive

30 Mar 2004

The South African Revenue Service's eFiling service still hasn't got back to me over their non-support of government-promoted Open Source platforms. I've sent off a reminder, and hopefully they'll be more responsive this time around. Perhaps some additional requests will prioritise their reply...

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  1. Francois Botha — July 18, 2006 at 02:17 PM.

    Tried doing my returns online for the first time and found it to be the most frustrating week of the year so far! And lime green links on a white background!? What were they thinking? Also made lots of suggestions to them (in good spirit) but no reply so far. Did get some clarity on one issue though... I trie dto register with username igitur but the system defaulted to igitur2189. I queried. They replied. Seems they use the last 4 digits to identify the user. Heck... why not use the USERNAME? Or better, the ID number that I entered!? I agree with you on the open source platform issue, but I highly doubt they'll be able to set that up themselves if they can't even get a basic design right in the first place. cheers F
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