Especially on the first day, last Friday, people went to work en masse. More than 735,000 people filed their tax returns, more than ever before in a single day. In the following days, people also performed their civic duty. The 2.5 million submissions are 270,000 more than last year in the first week.
Unlike last year, the traffic peak did not lead to major disruptions and inaccessibility to DigiD. A spokesman for the tax authorities says: “Things are going very well.”
Tax authorities expect 10 million tax returns for May, so a quarter of them have already been received in the first week. The tax authorities cannot determine the source of this preoccupation.
In fact, at least 9.2 million people have to file their tax return every March and April to do so. But many make it a sport to be as fast as possible. Maybe in the hope of getting the money back quickly. Although this makes no sense.