Time change glitch sends German man 1,700 identical tax letters

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2024-11-06

Berlin (dpa) - A man in Germany received 1,700 copies of a letter from the tax office. His application to access government's platform for paperless electronic tax returns was made during the last weekend of October, when clocks were set back an hour, a spokeswoman for the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. She said the application "was caught in a sort of time loop" due to a technical glitch triggered by the time change. The mountain of letters......

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