Inland Revenue warns public to ignore any SMS about tax refunds

The tax department said on Thursday that anyone who receives an SMS text message purportedly from Taxisnet, to ignore it.

It said that messages with sender ‘TAXISnet’ with the words: “You have received a refund of XXX euros” which urge recipients to enter a page with the address “https: /t.ly/CYA9”, are not official correspondence of the tax department.

“Those who have received such messages should ignore them,” the department said.

The department officially communicates only through emails that end in @ tax.mof.gov.cy.