By Graham Hayday, 16 July 2002 09:20
NEWS The Inland Revenue's beleaguered tax site - which was recently taken down following a serious security breach - isn't exactly flavour of the month with a body of people you'd expect to use it with some gusto: accountants. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has found that just five per cent of its members used the site for their income tax returns this year. Perhaps more worryingly, 98 per cent of respondents to the organisation's survey experienced system failures or errors, an increase of three per cent on last year, this morning's FT reports. Last year, only 79,000 out of nearly nine million tax returns were carried out online.
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