[GH85Carrera]

Long time no see! How are things?

I have had fun dealing with the Oklahoma Tax commission over sales tax. 99.999% of our sales are services only, we deliver links to files for the customer to download. Just electrons in a specific order, and most often the few sales of a print or prints is to a state agency, or a church, or a sales tax exempt entity. Last year, we actually had a new flight, and all of the typical tax exempt services, but they ordered some prints that were $105 total taxable sales. We collected $8.66 in sales tax. When I went to file my report, there was no option to file a report as there was before.

So I just sent the $8.66 and figured at least I would not be in delinquent.

Last Friday I got a letter that said my account did not show a report and I was a bad boy. I tried again to file the report, and there was no way to do it on-line. So I called them.

My mistake was calling on a Friday afternoon, I guess they all go home early on Friday. I was on hold for 45 minutes and finally got the option of leaving a message for them to call me. No call back on Friday, nothing on Monday or Tuesday, but this morning at 8:02 AM I saw a local call, and decided to take a chance it was legit. It was the tax commission!

I told her there was no place on the web page to file my return, and she sounded like a was a moron and she had me log in, and she went to the same page and there was a pause, and she said "what is going on?" then I heard typing and all of sudden I had the old page that allowed me to file a report.

She said "the computer" changed it somehow. So I got to file the report from last year, but since it was overdue, I owed 47 cents in penalties! Screw it, I am not fighting over 47 cents. So I paid it.

Typical government "services" and bureaucrats.