People received text messages from the IRS and saw short URLs from unknown sources, thinking it was a scam.

(Provided by Zhang Fenyu)

[Reporter Lin Minzhen/Taichung Report] Today is the first day of tax settlement and declaration. The Central District State Taxation Bureau widely distributed the "Mobile Tax Declaration" lottery text message. However, when people saw the short URL of unknown origin, they mistakenly thought it was a fraudulent group.

Taichung City Councilor Zhang Fenyu questioned, why not use the government's ".gov.tw" short URL?

Let the public not be able to tell the truth from the fake, and lose their good intentions.

The National Taxation Bureau of the Central District responded that it will strengthen the construction of the government's short URL service with the digital department to make it easier for the public to identify and reduce the risk of mistakenly linking to fraudulent or phishing websites.

Zhang Fenyu said that the content of the text message was "Hello! After investigation, it is applicable to mobile tax declaration cases. You can complete the declaration with your mobile phone and you can participate in the lucky draw. For details, please refer to the press release (https://reurl.cc/2W9nm6)." She After receiving complaints from the public, I asked the Central District State Taxation Bureau to confirm the content of the text message.

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Zhang Fenyu said that the Ministry of Digital Development has set up a short URL service for the government. As long as you see ".gov.tw" at the end, it is a government website, but the National Taxation Bureau is still sending short messages with ordinary short URLs. It is no wonder that people misunderstand and lower the government. Credibility.

The National Taxation Bureau of the Central District stated that in order to encourage people to use mobile phones to file tax returns, the Civil Rights Examiner used text messages to guide and promote the lottery information. Because the content of the text messages has a character limit, the website link of the news release was simplified, and the actual link address is Zhong District IRS website press release.

We will strengthen colleagues to use the digital department to build government short URL services, provide people with trusted links to .gov URLs, and reduce the risk of people being defrauded.