AI summary:
Due to a typo on an information flyer, the Basel-Stadt tax administration had to purchase a web address in the Bahamas. The flyer, sent to over 100,000 households, instructed taxpayers to register at “www.eSteuern.BS/private”, omitting the “.ch” at the end. This led to the URL pointing to the Bahamas instead of Basel-Stadt, as “.bs” is the country code for the Bahamas. To rectify this without incurring the estimated CHF 100,000 cost of reprinting the flyers, the tax administration opted to buy the incorrect domain for CHF 900 and set up a redirect to the correct site. No user data is transferred in this process; it simply links to the correct page.
.zuerich has its own top level domain, and Basel is still in the dark ages?
Just kidding.
I’m actually positively surprised that they decided to fix it so cheap and efficient. Mistakes happen.
Nice story and efficient fix
Who thought they could actually solve an administrative blunder with just a bit more BS?
Sweet I guess I’ll send my tax money to the Bahamas and to avoid problems I can just redirect the Tax office to my Bahamas bank account without moving the money.
Yeah, totally a mistake BUT Basel tax authorities now owns a Bahamas web domain. I doesn’t have good optics LMAO
How refreshing to see such pragmatism by the canton! I‘m sure other agencies would have reprinted the flyers because „it‘s the rules“
The link to esteuern.bs does not work for me. Did anyone manage to get this working?
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actually funny
AI summary:
Due to a typo on an information flyer, the Basel-Stadt tax administration had to purchase a web address in the Bahamas. The flyer, sent to over 100,000 households, instructed taxpayers to register at “www.eSteuern.BS/private”, omitting the “.ch” at the end. This led to the URL pointing to the Bahamas instead of Basel-Stadt, as “.bs” is the country code for the Bahamas. To rectify this without incurring the estimated CHF 100,000 cost of reprinting the flyers, the tax administration opted to buy the incorrect domain for CHF 900 and set up a redirect to the correct site. No user data is transferred in this process; it simply links to the correct page.
.zuerich has its own top level domain, and Basel is still in the dark ages?
Just kidding.
I’m actually positively surprised that they decided to fix it so cheap and efficient. Mistakes happen.
Nice story and efficient fix
Who thought they could actually solve an administrative blunder with just a bit more BS?
Sweet I guess I’ll send my tax money to the Bahamas and to avoid problems I can just redirect the Tax office to my Bahamas bank account without moving the money.
Yeah, totally a mistake BUT Basel tax authorities now owns a Bahamas web domain. I doesn’t have good optics LMAO
How refreshing to see such pragmatism by the canton! I‘m sure other agencies would have reprinted the flyers because „it‘s the rules“
The link to esteuern.bs does not work for me. Did anyone manage to get this working?
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