Local tax outage hits WeTax and Gov24: Ministry

Local tax services were partially down Wednesday due to technical issues affecting an online local tax system, the Ministry of Interior and Safety said.

The Standard Local Tax System, an internal network used by local officials, was disrupted due to a sudden surge in data traffic during the process of updating the system in time for Wednesday's inauguration of local government leaders elected in the June 3 local elections, according to the ministry.

The disruptions led to outages of WeTax, an online tax service site, alongside automated administration kiosks and the Gov24 portal.

WeTax, for instance, was scheduled to resume operations at 8 a.m. following two scheduled suspensions to reflect changes in connection to the local elections. The site, however, failed to resume as planned.

By the afternoon, some local tax services, including for tax payments, were restored.

The ministry has extended to Friday the deadline for all local tax filings and payments whose original deadlines fell between last Friday and this Thursday.

Additional extensions could be made if the system failure prolongs, the ministry said.

Yonhap