Ministry of the Interior and Safety: Local Tax Payment Service Restored in 12 Hours... Deadline Extended to July 7

"We Will Do Our Best to Prevent a Recurrence"
Payment Deadline Extended Again to the 7th

Photo by Witax website

The local tax filing and payment service was restored to normal after 12 hours of disruption.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that the local tax system service resumed at around 8:50 p.m. on July 1. The disruption occurred during the data migration process related to the launch of the integrated Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City and the administrative restructuring of Incheon Metropolitan City.

Due to this disruption, several services were affected, including Witax, the online local tax filing and payment service, local government civil service counters, unmanned civil document issuance machines, local tax payments through Government24, and the issuance of various certificates.

The service, which was originally scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. on July 1, encountered errors as the data processing volume of the local tax system increased much more than expected. As a result, normal operations were restored only after about 12 hours.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety stated, "We apologize for not being able to provide the service as scheduled," and emphasized, "We will strengthen system inspections and operational management to ensure stable service and do our utmost to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents."

Due to administrative restructuring, various public services had been suspended twice since the end of last month. Taking this into account, the ministry initially extended the deadline for local tax filing and payment to July 3. However, as the system normalization was delayed, the deadline was further extended to July 7 to ensure that taxpayers do not face any disadvantages.

A ministry official explained, "Although the service has been restored, since it was not operational during business hours today, the extension for the local tax filing and payment deadline will remain in effect. This is the right thing to do from the public's perspective."

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