Our View: Ignoring payment deadlines is part of our culture now

The Tax office announced on Wednesday that the next day’s deadline for submission of 2023 tax returns had been put back by a month to November 30. Press reports had suggested this was the plan, a week ago, but it had not been confirmed until the eve of the deadline. The reason for the extension was that there were problems with the Taxisnet website in mid-October and it could not be accessed by people outside Cyprus.

That this was considered an adequate reason for changing the deadline...