I knew about this on some level before, but the recent posts have given me a better understanding on how in some countries people need expensive third party software to pay their taxes.
Freetaxusa.com Isn’t expensive. It’s dumb it still costs money for state but the company that lobbies the government to make our tax code complicated costs a lot more.
You can also do your taxes manually if you know you have a simple return. Or use the expensive software and check it against your manual.
It all sucks though. It should be dead simple as the government already knows 99% of everyone’s tax info.
But why do they make everyone file a tax return? In the UK it’s only necessary if you’re self-employed or very wealthy. Is it because they like auditing poor people so they have an excuse not to audit the rich?
DK,DC. The effort needed to file a tax return is negligible. It’s literally as easy as getting a piece of paper in the mail, going to a website, and copying like four numbers and then getting a few hundred dollars in the mail. The only scenarios where this takes more than 5 minutes is if you’re either self-employed or have a lot of wealth in assets you want to claim.
Anyone can file directly to the IRS, point blank, it just might take more than five minutes. I filed for four years when I was self-employed just fine. I filed for multiple jobs this year for free.
I knew about this on some level before, but the recent posts have given me a better understanding on how in some countries people need expensive third party software to pay their taxes.
Freetaxusa.com Isn’t expensive. It’s dumb it still costs money for state but the company that lobbies the government to make our tax code complicated costs a lot more.
You can also do your taxes manually if you know you have a simple return. Or use the expensive software and check it against your manual.
It all sucks though. It should be dead simple as the government already knows 99% of everyone’s tax info.
Yeah, fortunately I live in America where filing taxes is free and takes like five minutes out of the year
But why do they make everyone file a tax return? In the UK it’s only necessary if you’re self-employed or very wealthy. Is it because they like auditing poor people so they have an excuse not to audit the rich?
DK,DC. The effort needed to file a tax return is negligible. It’s literally as easy as getting a piece of paper in the mail, going to a website, and copying like four numbers and then getting a few hundred dollars in the mail. The only scenarios where this takes more than 5 minutes is if you’re either self-employed or have a lot of wealth in assets you want to claim.
Yeah, fuck everyone else who has multiple jobs, is partially or fully self employed, has taxable assets and isn’t allowed to use the free software.
Anyone can file directly to the IRS, point blank, it just might take more than five minutes. I filed for four years when I was self-employed just fine. I filed for multiple jobs this year for free.