Tax authorities in Israel

Tax authorities in Israel

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu May 26 21:28:40 IDT 2011


2011/5/26 Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net>:
> Hi people,
> I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income tax). I
> think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports only MSIE. I
> called their support and asked, they said they don't support Google Chrome
> or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google Chrome and Firefox with all other
> websites, including my bank, but only with the tax authorities website I
> have to use MSIE. I have a bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an
> hour and I tried at least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their
> support until I could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli
> Internet association should do something about it (revoke their .gov
> domain!)...

I encourage you to write to them and ask. If the site requires any
particular proprietary software to work then it certainly is not a
website. Simply tranfering information via tcp/ip on port 80 does not
make the communication a website.


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Dotan Cohen

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