Onslaught v Skatteverket – the site crashed together – Swedish Dagbladet

photo: Christine Olsson / TT

the pressure on the Tax site became hard over on Tuesday in connection with the email service of the declaration had its premiere on this year’s declaration .

the problems started already at seven in the morning, when the site became overloaded directly. Already one minute after opening, 12 000 people inside the service for e-declaration. On average, the Tax Agency had different e-services about 200 000. logged every hour. Although the majority of these have been inside to keep track of his declaration and tax, so do not have any signed to have the declaration to make.

– Some may be companies that make VAT declaration, to be submitted before 26th, and you want to be ready before Easter, says Kay bunks, business developer at Swedish Tax Agency, and explains that the figure of 200,000 for all e-services that require login.

Even if the pressure Tax Board tends to be hard on the opening day of the declaration will hear it unusual for the whole site crashing together.

– to my knowledge it is the first time it has happened to this kind of reasons, says Kay berths.

There is also a limit on how many can be logged into the online services at the same time, so even if the site is accessible can be difficult to get into the e-service.

Tax Agency has too little capacity?

– Yes, of course we have too little capacity to deal with peaks. But for these peaks, we can not have extra capacity throughout the year. It is not cost effective.

Until three o’clock in the afternoon, nearly 164 000 people made clear their declaration. And Tax Agency expects the number of completed returns continue to come in.

– Last year we had a million logins on launch day and we believe we will have over 1.5 million logins before the day is over, says Kay berths and says that gradually expanded the capacity of the site as the e-declaration become increasingly popular.

He expects continued pressure on declaration service on Wednesday, and there is a risk that even fortsättningvis can be difficult to get into.

– Do we have a heavy load, it is only to try again after a moment, he said.

Even last year the e-service for the declaration congested, but not so hard that whole site crashed. Declaring electronically is now the most common way to make his declaration. Around 70 percent of all returns to be made in this way.