Liepāja Residents Attack Tax System Faster Than Karosta Tram in the Morning
In the first nine hours, 73,500 Liepāja residents and other Latvians tried to submit tax declarations, but 400 of them decided to break the system with multiple declarations.
While Riga was still rubbing its eyes and looking for coffee, a real digital war had already begun in Liepāja. In the first nine hours, 73,500 residents attacked the State Revenue Service system with their declarations, as if it were ticket sales for the Liepāja Rock Music Festival.
"I think that's faster than the tram from Karosta to downtown," laughs Gunārs from Pērkone Street. "But at least the tram doesn't break down when everyone wants to get on at once." True, about 400 people decided that one declaration wasn't enough and submitted several, as if the State Revenue Service were the Liepāja market where you could haggle over prices.
The State Revenue Service Director General reported that a virtual queue of 4,000 people had formed in the system. That's almost as many people as stand in line at Liepāja's most popular café on Sunday morning, except this time without the coffee aroma and heartfelt conversations about the weather.
For Liepāja residents, of course, no problem — we're used to queues and waiting. Moreover, while Riga panics about the system's slowness, we calmly enjoy the sea view and think about how quickly our overpaid tax will return. As someone wise said: "Better to stand in line virtually than in Riga's traffic jams."
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