I have to say I applaud the Irish Government for making the effort on E-Government.

We had to do our first annual return recently and it was great to be able to use the web based system to file the return. The system also has a lot of helpful prompts when you make a mistake which of course a paper form can just never do.

There was one silly problem though. I got to the end of the form and everything validated fine and then it explains I needed an account with CRO.ie, right at the very end. Now to get this account you have to fill out and post a paper based form. Had they have explained this at the start I would have filled it out in advance but now I have to wait on the Irish postal system.