Budget-strapped Connecticut has plenty of ways of telling those who owe to “pay up,” but now it can do it in more than 50 languages.
The state’s top tax collector, Commissioner Kevin B. Sullivan, announced Tuesday the installation of Google Translator to the Department of Revenue Services (DRS) website.
With Sullivan’s smiling image looking on, the online tool translates the content of taxpayer information on the web pages into more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese.
“Our job is to make taxpayer information and assistance available and accessible,” Sullivan said in a statement. “Being able to translate Connecticut tax information for speakers of languages in addition to English can only help our state’s diverse population understand and voluntarily comply with what’s expected of them.”
The translator is on the left side of the DRS website at www.ct.gov/DRS. A drop-down menu allows users to select from 53 languages The Google Online Translation Engine software that is used to create the new web tool strives to translate pages as accurately as possible.
However, DRS cautions that nuances in different languages do not guarantee that all translations will be 100 percent accurate.Â
