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  • AxtremusA Offline
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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-pledged-sales-tax-cut-systems-arent-designed

    Short version:

    • New Prime Minister promises to suspend sales tax
    • Blames delay on computer systems' inability to calculate 0% sales tax -- company maintaining said system says will need a year of work to implement 0% sales tax
    • may come down to doing 1% sales tax for food first -- even this will take half a year

    I wonder if they use COBOL.

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    • ShiroKuroS Offline
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      OMG classic. They’re probably sending code back and forth by fax….

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      • AxtremusA Axtremus

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-pledged-sales-tax-cut-systems-arent-designed

        Short version:

        • New Prime Minister promises to suspend sales tax
        • Blames delay on computer systems' inability to calculate 0% sales tax -- company maintaining said system says will need a year of work to implement 0% sales tax
        • may come down to doing 1% sales tax for food first -- even this will take half a year

        I wonder if they use COBOL.

        ShiroKuroS Offline
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        wrote last edited by
        #3

        @Axtremus said:

        I wonder if they use COBOL.

        I googled. COBOL is over 60 years old!! 🤣🤣🤣

        Fax, COBOL. sounds legit. 😂

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        • wtgW Offline
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          OK, so I was a COBOL programmer. Even back when dinosaurs and I roamed the earth together, implementing a zero percent sales tax would have involved a user changing the rate from the "terminal" on their desk.

          Now, get off my lawn!

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          • MikM Do not disturb
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            Mik
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            Yeah, let's not blame this on COBOL. I could do the code for that in about 10 minutes or less. This smacks of an architecture issue.

            “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
            ― Douglas Adams

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            • MikM Mik

              Yeah, let's not blame this on COBOL. I could do the code for that in about 10 minutes or less. This smacks of an architecture issue.

              wtgW Offline
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              @Mik said:

              This smacks of an architecture issue.

              Indeed it does.

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