Local tax services resume after 12-hour glitch disrupts WeTax, Gov24 and kiosks nationwide

Local tax services were normalized on Wednesday after about a 12-hour system glitch that partially disrupted an online local tax system, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.

The Standard Local Tax System, an internal network used by local officials, was disrupted by a sudden surge in data traffic during the system's update to ensure it was ready for Wednesday's launch of new local governments elected in the June 3 local elections, according to the ministry.

The disruptions led to outages of WeTax, an online tax service, as well as 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.

The local tax services, including for tax payments, had been fully restored as of around 8:50 p.m., the ministry said.

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.

Yonhap