8,5 tax within – Parool.nl

01-05-15 12:37 pm – Source: Reuters

More than 8.5 million Dutch have done before May 1 tax return. © ANP

More than 8.5 million people have May 1 their income tax returns sent in 2014. That is more than last year in the period until 1 April which is common to report. This year, people were given a month longer time and time again yesterday extended until May 5

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The new delay is not attributable to problems with the tax authorities, State Secretary of Finance Eric Wiebes emphasized today. “It went so well that stretch was in the time schedule. The systems have kept excellent. ”

The last two months were met people who wanted to return four times to problems, but according to Wiebe is logical that occasionally there is “congestion” phenomenon. Despite the extra time it was the last day of March yet the busiest March 31 came more than 290,000 tax returns received by the tax authorities

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This year could everyone to do first online declaration on the website of the Tax Administration. That went well, says Director General of the Tax Peter Field. There were almost 5.5 million online returns. In this way, make a declaration takes on average eighteen minutes shorter than the old download program. Furthermore, more than 190,000 people use the app Declaration in 2014.

The Administration had about 6 million people the declaration beforehand completed. People had to check to see if the correct data alone. In addition, the Tax Information Line received nearly 1.5 million people inside and about 10,000 questions were answered via Twitter

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