How would a country's tax department not have a backup system that can handle this? Surely they would know they are a prime target, and so have air-gapped backups in addition to an automated backup process?
from someone following the war, if the tax department is as competent as the military, yeah, not surprising
also there was a massive outflux of capable people when the war started, IT was one of the biggest
Valid question. But on the other hand, Russia doesn't seem like they are well organized in anything they do. And normally they're the ones hacking the rest of the world, they probably didn't expect to be on the receiving end.
- nobody can admit mistakes unless they accept resignation or defenestration (or both and not necessarily in that order)
The chaos itself is worth a lot, but beyond that, the thing you have to understand in regimes like Russia is the massive incentive to never admit any kind of failure, which results in an increasing build-up of little lies as you move up the chain of command so that the dictator's close circle can tell him that everything is wonderful, when on the ground it's a disaster of people terrified to admit any kind of fault.
You assume the system were written this century and could even have those features.
Ah how I wish someone would delete the IRS’ records and backups 🥰
But on a relevant note, that is major! Hitting Russia in the wallet is going to hurt. The morale among the civilian population can get worse under this too.
I'm actually wondering how many Russian billionaires are celebrating today that the tax department has lost the records of all the tax bills they haven't paid.
I bet a ton are. And probably not for current years but past years of making mistakes, whether on purpose or not are likely now gone and they effectively have a clean record.
But I wonder if they had anyone making payments. How are they going to know their balance? This is assuming their tax structure is similar to what the US has.
It could benefit a lot of people from all classes. But could also create a lot of havoc when the government demands to be paid and the people don’t agree with the numbers being demanded.
err, i think it dosen't matter, biolionary already rule the country, so they weren't going be held accountable to begin with
Yeah it's the rich that benefit from this, same if it happened to the US. The rich take longer to audit than the poor
To be fair I think Ukraine benefits from this too
Optimistically, whatever tax is not getting paid, it converts to money not being spent to continue the war. Realistically I would expect the government to cut every other expense but the war, so this is not going to influence the war short-term :(
The thread starter is probably right about civilians' morale, cause they are going to be sucked dry of any money even faster with this kind of fuck-up from government
Fuck russia
Can't wait to never hear another one of their fuckimg stupid Chinese-riddle-threats, fucking hate that shit. Always a ridiculous threat they have zero abillity or intention to see thru
Wanna release some info on which GOP politicians are on Russian bankrolls now?
That would be a sweet sweet Christmas present.
Surely they sniffed and stole a bunch before wiping? Might not have been viable, but I can hope!
I'm sure they will just restore it from the backup tapes. They weren't so incompetent as to not keep offline backups right?
Have you not seen Chernobyl aha?
This seems like major strike for the Ukraine if true, but I assume the effects of the ensuing chaos might take a bit of time, because taxation data is kinda at the infrastructure planning and maintenance point and infrastructure takes a lot of energy or time to change (ie destroy/demilitarise in this case).
So how does one hire their services? Asking for a country.
Just been in tax department, everything works normaly 🤷♂️
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