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Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
A small mistake with consequences: Due to incorrect information on a flyer, the Basel tax administration had to acquire a web address in the Bahamas.
The faux pas occurred on a freshly printed information flyer on digital tax returns, which was sent to more than 100,000 households in the canton. We very much regret it," said SRF, whose "Regionaljournal Basel" first reported on the matter, quoting David Weber, spokesman for the Basel-Stadt Department of Finance. After discovering the error, the tax administration had two options: Either to reprint and send out the flyer, or to purchase the incorrect web address without further ado and use it as a redirect.
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