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I read a long rant about the online submission of taxes posted on X, formerly Twitter, on the last day for submitting income-tax returns. This was by Nisansa de Silva, a friend who teaches computer science. It was a long thread and included words such as “rage” and many other words in capitals. But the most important sentences were: “Now I understand that this is the first time they are doing this online and it is bound to be bumpy. Woe be it if they go back to paper.” I too had spent many hours, standing in line to get my PIN, staring at the screen waiting for the system to respond, etc. I had gone through the same torturous process but strangely I experienced no rage. Was it simply because I was double my friend’s age? It was because I took part of the blame. This was not the first year they offered online filing. It was the year they made it mandatory. I had been asked to pick up my PIN six years ago when I had responsibility for matters digital in government; they had sent me a temporary PIN three years ago so that I could save a visit. And I had not taken a PIN. I teach about the peak-load problem, and I knew the system would be slow at best (and may even crash) on the deadline date. And yet, there I was standing in line for a PIN at the Inland Revenue head office two days before the deadline; and there I was staring at the screen hours from the deadline. Making everything to with taxes online is worth a cheer. And as shown by my (mis)behaviour, sometimes you have to crack the whip. If filing online was not made mandatory, I would not be writing this article. I would have done the calculations on my computer, entered the results in handwriting, and handed over the paperwork by the deadline. Having suffered the consequences of an inattentive employee wrongly entering my TIN, I know full well the need to eliminate handwriting and the reentering of data from the process. So, one cheer for throwing us into the deep end even with a bad product. But as my enraged friend said, do not go back to paper however many complaints there are. At the Inland Revenue head office last week, it was obvious they had not made adequate plans. Having beaten the bushes to increase the ranks of the tax filers and mandating online filing, they should have expected large numbers of taxpayers to come asking for PINs, especially because the online guidance was to come to the head office (on the hotline, it appears the correct instructions were given). The other option of waiting for the PIN to be mailed was no longer feasible by the last week. But why did the website give only one location, when there are multiple tax offices? I was told that a PIN could have been obtained at those locations, but that was after I had been standing in line for some time. But they improvised. Temporary counters had been opened and you could see officials working diligently under sub-optimal conditions. The responsible senior official was on the ground, trouble shooting and explaining. Even the Commissioner General came down to see what could be done to move the lines faster. So, the second cheer for hands-on improvisation. As anyone who went through the process can testify, the user interface is atrocious. If I were to describe all the flaws, this will turn into a long and boring article. But one problem is illustrative. If a mistake had been made in schedule 7 or 8 and was discovered after the pages had been saved, it was necessary to go from the start, saving each page. This just adds to the load on the backend and degrades service quality for all. If the system allowed direct access to a page, much pain could have been avoided. But that is not the suggestion. It is that the Department convene user groups to run through the process demonstrating the pain points they experience. The user interface team can use the findings to improve the interface. One cannot understand the difficulties normal people have with technology without looking over their shoulders as they navigate the system. In the US, every government form had to indicate how much time would be needed to complete it, on average. This was a floor indicator, because it could not include the time required to gather the necessary documents. It would be a good practice to adopt in all government agencies, but Inland Revenue can be the pioneer. In the case of online forms, which is the only option regarding individual income tax returns, what would have to be calculated would be the average time to completion. This would most likely lead to adding to the four options (paths) offered at present. For example, the process could be made much easier for many senior citizens if an additional path could be carved out for those reporting investment and interest income, in addition to the interest-income only option. Minimise the requirements to upload scanned documents. Unlike in the old days, entities that collect taxes on behalf of the state (PAYE, Advance Income Tax, Withholding) do so electronically. The RAMIS interface requires the filer to fill in all the details of the entity that withheld the money, including the TIN, certificate number, date, etc. It should be easy to match these details to the details accompanying the remittances from the employers, banks, etc. It’s difficult to see what value is added by the requirement to scan the certificates and upload them. Minimising the uploading of supporting documents will save the taxpayer time and reduce the load on the system. As the system is improved, it may even be possible to have the withheld-and-remitted amounts automatically filled in by the system. It is only in the few cases where the amounts claimed by the taxpayer do not match what’s in the system that there would be a need to upload documents. The performance of any system under peak-load conditions is what matters. As the number of taxpayers increases (as we all hope it would) there will be more people trying to submit their payments and returns on the last possible day. Some congestion at peak is unavoidable. Many organisations try to flatten the peak, using incentives or disincentives to push users to the valleys. Inland Revenue may consider distributing taxpayer interactions across the entire month of November by giving different deadlines to different groups of taxpayers. This is the crudest form of flattening the peak. Another method is to set discounts and surcharges. Submit 30 days early and get a 5% discount (but it would be necessary to prevent a peak developing there!); submit five days late and pay a 5% surcharge, for example. The efforts made by Inland Revenue to digitalise the system must be appreciated. The Department has the potential to become a leader in Government digitalisation if the momentum is maintained. No longer will it be the poster child of Government digitalisation failure. The actions of Deputy Commissioner General and other senior officials who waded into the crowds to trouble shoot in physical space should be replicated by the design teams in virtual space. Learning from the users and their experiences in navigating the system will be key to earning three cheers next year.

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, Russian media reported, hours after a stunning rebel advance took over the capital of Damascus and ended the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule. The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Mr. Assad and his family being given asylum in Moscow, his longtime ally and protector. The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify the reports but contacted the Kremlin for comment. RIA also said Moscow had received guarantees from Syrian insurgents of the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic posts in Syria. Mr. Assad reportedly left Syria early Sunday, and Syrians have been pouring into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule. The swiftly moving events have raised questions about the future of the country and the wider region. Russia has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council discuss the situation in Syria, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the U.N., Dmitry Polyansky, posted on Telegram. Joyful crowds gathered in squares in Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-year civil war. Others gleefully ransacked the presidential palace and residence after Mr. Assad and other top officials vanished. Abu Mohammed al-Golani, a former al-Qaeda commander who cut ties with the group years ago and says he embraces pluralism and religious tolerance, leads the biggest rebel faction and is poised to chart the country's future. In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, Mr. al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Mr. Assad's fall "a victory to the Islamic nation." Calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and not his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Mr. Assad had made Syria "a farm for Iran's greed." The rebels face the daunting task of healing bitter divisions in a country ravaged by war and still split among armed factions. Turkey-backed opposition fighters are battling U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the north, and the Islamic State group is still active in some remote areas. Syrian state television broadcast a rebel statement early Sunday saying Mr. Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been released. They called on people to preserve the institutions of "the free Syrian state." The rebels later announced a curfew in Damascus from 4 p.m. to 5 a.m. The rebels said they freed people held at the notorious Saydnaya prison, where rights groups say thousands were tortured and killed. A video circulating online purported to show rebels breaking open cell doors and freeing dozens of female prisoners, many of whom appeared shocked. At least one small child was seen among them. "This happiness will not be completed until I can see my son out of prison and know where is he," said one relative, Bassam Masr. "I have been searching for him for two hours. He has been detained for 13 years." Rebel commander Anas Salkhadi later appeared on state TV and sought to reassure Syria's religious and ethnic minorities, saying: "Syria is for everyone, no exceptions. Syria is for Druze, Sunnis, Alawites, and all sects." "We will not deal with people the way the Assad family did," he added. Celebrations in the capital Damascus residents prayed in mosques and celebrated in squares, calling, "God is great." People chanted anti-Assad slogans and honked car horns. Teenage boys picked up weapons apparently discarded by security forces and fired into the air. Revelers filled Umayyad Square, where the Defense Ministry is located. Some waved the three-starred Syrian flag that predates the Assad government and was adopted by the revolutionaries. Elsewhere, many parts of the capital were empty and shops were closed. Soldiers and police left their posts and fled, and looters broke into the Defense Ministry. Videos showed families wandering the presidential palace, some carrying stacks of plates and other household items. "It's like a dream. I need someone to wake me up," said opposition fighter Abu Laith, adding the rebels were welcomed in Damascus with "love." At the Justice Ministry, where rebels stood guard, Judge Khitam Haddad said they were protecting documents from the chaos. Outside, some residents sought information about relatives who disappeared under Mr. Assad. The rebels "have felt the pain of the people," said one woman, giving only her first name, Heba. She worried about possible revenge killings by the rebels, many of whom appeared to be underage. Syria's al-Watan newspaper, which was historically pro-government, wrote: "We are facing a new page for Syria. We thank God for not shedding more blood." It added that media workers should not be blamed for publishing past government statements, saying it "only carried out the instructions." A statement from the Alawite sect that has formed the core of Mr. Assad's base called on young Syrians to be "calm, rational and prudent and not to be dragged into what tears apart the unity of our country." The rebels mainly come from the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria, which also has sizable Druze, Christian and Kurdish communities. In Qamishli in the northeast, a Kurdish man slapped a statue of the late leader Hafez Assad with his shoe. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to "extend its hand" to the opposition and turn its functions over to a transitional government. A video shared on Syrian opposition media showed armed men escorting him from his office and to the Four Seasons hotel on Sunday. Anwar Gargash said Mr. Assad's destination at this point is a "footnote in history," comparing it to the long exile of German Kaiser Wilhelm II after World War I. Calls for an orderly transition The rebel advances since Nov. 27 were the largest in recent years, and saw the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs fall within days as the Syrian army melted away. Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, which provided crucial support to Mr. Assad throughout the uprising, abandoned him as they reeled from other conflicts. The end of Mr. Assad's rule was a major blow to Iran and its allies, already weakened by conflict with Israel. Iran, which had strongly backed him throughout the civil war, said Syrians should decide their future "without destructive, coercive, foreign intervention." The Iranian Embassy in Damascus was ransacked after apparently having been abandoned. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile said Israeli troops had seized a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established in 1974, saying it was to protect Israeli residents after Syrian troops abandoned positions. Israel's military later warned residents of five southern Syria communities to stay home for their safety, and didn't respond to questions. Israel captured the Golan in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it. The international community, except for the United States, views it as occupied, and the Arab League on Sunday condemned what it called Israel's efforts to take advantage of Mr. Assad's downfall occupy more territory. The rebels are led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, which has its origins in al-Qaeda and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the United Nations. Al-Golani, has sought to recast the group as a moderate and tolerant force. "Golani has made history and sparked hope among millions of Syrians," said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser with the International Crisis Group. "But he and the rebels now face a formidable challenge ahead." The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called Saturday for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an "orderly political transition." The Gulf nation of Qatar, a key regional mediator, hosted an emergency meeting of foreign ministers and top officials from eight countries with interests in Syria late Saturday. They included Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Turkey. Majed al-Ansari, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said they agreed on the need "to engage all parties on the ground," including the HTS, and that the main concern is "stability and safe transition." This story was reported by The Associated Press. AP writers Abby Sewell reported from Beirut. Bassem Mroue, Sarah El Deeb and Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut; Samar Kassaballi, Omar Sanadiki and Ghaith Alsayed in Damascus; Jon Gambrell in Manama, Bahrain; Josef Federman in Doha, Qatar; and Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem, contributed.

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