German taxes and Elster III
In a telling development of what prompted my original post (that I just had wasted several hours trying to use the third-rate Elster products to file my VAT):
I recently received a notification from the “IRS” that because I had exceeded the normal deadline, caused exclusively by their incompetence, they would book me a 35-Euro late fee.
They prevent me from fulfilling the rules they impose to their one-sided advantage, they waste hours of my time, they bring me to the point that I want to throw my notebook at the wall—and I have to pay them…
Of course, the complaint I just filed took another fair bit of time—and forced me to use Elster again…
I can only re-iterate that the situation is utterly inexcusable. Elster, the overall tax system, and the German IRS all need to be completely over-hauled or replaced by something better.
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