Tax Department announces cookie usage for website

The Tax Department has announced the cookies used on its website for various purposes. These include cookies set by Google and YouTube for advertising, bandwidth measurement, video preferences, and tracking viewed videos.

Specific cookies include:

• NID: Used for advertising purposes, set by Google, with a duration of 6 months.
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: Set by YouTube to measure bandwidth, lasting 5 months and 27 days.
• YSC: Tracks views of embedded YouTube videos, session cookie.
• yt-remote-connected-devices: Stores user video preferences, never expires.
• yt-remote-device-id: Stores user video preferences, never expires.
• yt.innertube::nextId: Registers a unique ID for videos viewed, never expires.
• yt.innertube::requests: Stores data on videos viewed, never expires.
• _GRECAPTCHA: Set by Google reCAPTCHA to identify bots, lasting 5 months and 27 days.

Additional cookies relate to user consent management via the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, including:

• Advertisement category: 1 year
• Analytics category: 11 months
• Functional category: 11 months
• Necessary cookies: 11 months
• Other categories: 11 months

Other cookies include PHPSESSID, used to manage user sessions, lasting 7 days, and viewed_cookie_policy, used to store user consent status for cookies, lasting 11 months.

More details are available on the official website.