I have a major, MAJOR gripe with our South African Revenue Service. I registered for efiling the previous tax season but never managed to get it to work properly so I submitted my tax forms the conventional way, manually filled them in and dropped them off at their offices. This year with much pomp and ceremony they announced their new system – which is supposed to make submitting our tax forms easier and faster.  I have been trying to submit my form for the last couple of months with ZERO success. I can see my ‘already filled in for me’ tax form on the website, I can even open it to a certain extent… but I cannot fill it in and submit. And I haven’t just tried one computer – I have tried several, I have downloaded and installed the latest adobe reader as per their instructions – it *still* doesn’t work, I have even gone to the lengths of phoning their helpline only to be told I have a technical problem and should email their tech support people. I am STILL waiting for a reply. A colleague of mine in desperation went to their offices yesterday morning – they were offline.
How the friggen hell are we supposed to avoid becoming tax evaders if they can’t get their bloody system to work?