OT: Canadian Tax Database

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: OT: Canadian Tax Database
Date: 2007-03-08 10:35:49
Message-ID: 45EFE705.2030104@archonet.com
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http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175

"For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number
was instead filled in with a birth date."

Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in
business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a wealthy
democratic country didn't use data types.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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