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Scratch that tax glitch

Scratch that tax glitch

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It could have been a lot worse. Like breaking down on Monday, for instance.

TurboTax, the tax-filing used by more than half of the people who file their online, went kablooey for a while on Sunday night, the day before Monday’s deadline to file income taxes. Was it a punishment by the software gods for those who had waited until the last minute?

The problem, TurboTax said, was a “configuration setting” affected by heavy volume of users. The service was offline for about 1 hour, 10 minutes early Sunday evening, the company said.

Frustrated procrastinators took to Twitter to express their dismay. For example, one apparently panicked user tweeted: “u cant! Not now!! #epicfail.”