Monday, June 18, 2018

My bad experience in filing an annual return

I have to file my ACRA return today.

ACRA is quite inconsiderate. They designed a complicated system for submitting an annual return. I have to download a 16 page PDF to guide me through their process.

After I entered by business UEN number, I received a message that I have to update my Electronic Register of Members and Share Capital.

I have to search for where the link to update this item. I have to go through a website that has hundreds of confusing links. I could not find the place to update it.

I called their hotline. It was another nightmare. After listening to many irrelevant and distracting messages, I finally managed to speak to a staff.

The hotline staff helped me to go through the complicated steps. The information needed to update the share register was quite complicated. She had to help me.

I finally managed to complete the return. I saved the transaction and have to come back again to complete it.

I asked to complete a survey. It asked me to rate my experience from 1 (poor) to 6 (excellent). I entered 1. It was not accepted. I was asked a few times. I entered 1. They were all rejected. Finally, I was told that I had exceeded the calls.

What a sham!

Tan Kin Lian

1 comment:

  1. At one point in time, the basics of which we get answers from the other end from human beings with efficiency and was put through to the extension number down-to- the- minute.

    Nowadays people tend to resist using phones as every person you speak tend to give a different reply.

    I had a credit card send to me, and after spending more than an hour trying to activate it only to listen to -"your phone number is not registered with us" which was filled on the application form. So I had to take quarter day off work to visit the bank personally as hotlines was just playing music after pressing from A to Z on the phone.

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