rant about business privilege tax

[harvey]

I've known that I need to file for business priv tax for a while now, so i try to be a responsible philadelphian and apply online.

The experience thus far involves:

- Internet explorer only

- Outright confusing site navigation

- The application requesting to access my system clipboard (for whatever unknown crazy reason).

- A failure to process my $300 payment 'The Online License Application was unable to process your request. We apologize for the inconvenience'

If this was a real business, people would be losing their jobs.

On the bright side, the phila.gov website doesn't tell visitors to get lost like it did 10 years prior to nutter :\

Progress!

ps: It looks like the mayor has a 'The Mayor's Commission on Technology (MCOT)', with a contact form.. The contact form is name only, and includes a telephone and fax number. No email addresses or further information. Site contains multiple 404's, just like city hall. How much is this mess costing us?? http://mcot.phila.gov/ContactInfo.html

pps: John Dougherty is listed as a supporter, as well as a bunch of criminals from comcast, verizon and ibm.

http://mcot.phila.gov/newsite/commissioners.html

Yet not a single org provides an email address or website.

Why did i even bother..

ppps: http://mcot.phila.gov/newsite/Initia...GIT/shows.html really? you're joking. at least they have 2006 on lockdown!

[StrangeTanks]

Oh I had a pretty good experience.

I needed to order U&O's for my bank on a couple places. $100 and you can do it online. In the process of trying to order them immedietly after processing my credit card I would get an error.

Long and short of it they charged my credit card $2500 for $300 worth of paperwork.