City of Philadelphia extends tax deadline due to Revenue Dept. website going down

The City of Philadelphia announced yesterday evening that it would extend the deadline for certain taxes until today at midnight, due to the Revenue Department website being down.

The day before taxes were due, the city’s Revenue Department website was down practically all day for “routine maintenance,” the Philly Post’s Joel Mathis reported yesterday. It’s maddening, Mathis wrote, given the city’s recent declaration to crack down on tax deadbeats.

From the post:

We’ve heard a lot lately about the failures of Philadelphians to pay their taxes. We’ve heard the mayor’s promises to crack down on property tax deadbeats, in particular. (“We’re going to chase their little asses down as hard as possible.”) We even saw Nutter appoint a new “tax collection czar” this month, grafting a new bureaucracy onto the old bureaucracy in order to get the old bureaucracy to work. But it all kind of rings false.

The city updated its Revenue Department site this February so that Philadelphians could pay their taxes using browsers other than Internet Explorer.