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Australian Tax Office extends eTax deadline By James Pearce, ZDNet Australia November 01, 2002 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Australian-Tax-Office-extends-eTax-deadline/0,139023166,120269564,00.htm
Record levels of online tax lodgements paralysed Australia's eTax system yesterday ahead of the official deadline for submission of 2001/2002 returns, prompting the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to grant an extension for eTax submissions until midnight, Sunday November 3. Earlier this week eTax director Nicki Haisman told ZDNet Australia the ATO was expecting up to 24,000 users per day to log on to the Web-site ahead of yesterday's deadline. Last night the ATO issued a release stating it had received a record number of online tax lodgements, with "20,000 lodgements in the past 24 hours causing some delays". A spokesperson for the ATO told ZDNet Australia that nothing had gone wrong or happened to the systems, and that taxpayers attempting to use eTax should keep trying. The Tax Commissioner Michael Carmody urged people to be patient and keep trying to lodge online, as penalties would not be applied until after November 3. "We're asking people to be patient and to keep trying at different times over the next few days," Carmody said. Over 520,000 of Australia's 2.3 million taxpayers have so far lodged their return using eTax.
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