Tax authorities in Israel

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 21:28, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I don't have the energy for this fighting windmills. What are the chances
that they change it because of me? I already said it verbally to their
support team, but I don't have the energy to write them a letter. And also
the Israeli Internet association. They know how to be active about issues
that matter to them. I guess this issue doesn't matter to them. I think it's
a shame on the government, and if I had more energy I might have refused to
pay taxes until this issue is fixed. But I use Windows (we actually have two
computers with Windows at home), and I can use MSIE if I want to, and
eventually it worked. So I paid my taxes.

By the way, I don't know what kind of spyware/virus I have, that my MSIE
opens with new websites all the time, although I'm using Google Chrome. I
think I will try NOD anti virus to check if I have a virus (currently I'm
using the free and open source Clamwin). Any suggestion for free software to
eliminate this virus?

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: uri at speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/
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