To everybody saying the IRS already knows what you make, Americas tax code is probably a little more complicated than that, and the IRS can’t even afford windows 2000. So no, you can’t just do the simple checkbox saying everything looks just about right. And that’s before we get into every state piggybacking off of the IRS form.
I’d say tell your legislator to give more money to the IRS, but “gestures at everything else happening”
I’d say tell your legislator to give more money to the IRS, but “gestures at everything else happening”
When republicans yell “starve the beast!” when talking about the USA government, what they really mean is kill the IRS. They will tell you it’s about reducing government spending, that’s a lie! They love overspending so they can reduce taxes for the billionaires
The IRS initially announced its plans to launch a test run of the direct tax-filing program in May, after issuing a report on its feasibility in response to a requirement in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sounds like we can thank Joe Biden for finally making this happen despite decades of Intuit buying our lawmakers so they can keep fucking people over with TurboTax
If you’re able to stay on the lowest tier, I think like $50-60, but if you have any forms not included in that tier, it’s more, and they are constantly trying to upsell you. If you accidentally click an upsell, they also won’t let you remove it or go back. One year I just had to erase everything and start over to not pay an extra $70 for a service I did not need
Better idea: Just give us our goddamn money back since all we're doing is filing so you can match what we say you owe us with what you say you owe us. Skip the step and just cut a check. FFS.
They don’t know how many deductable donations you made in the year, major purchases you want to write off the taxes for, other deductions you qualify for, tax credits from home improvements, etc. You’d have to do a simple flat tax system with no deductions or credits for that to work.
Then do the Swedish system. They send you a form with your information, you verify it, and if it's correct you just flippin' text them and they send you your money. If you have other deductions or additions you send them the information.
Whatever the case, the government already knows your regular earnings and for anyone that doesn't take extra deductions there's no reason not to simplify it to that extent.
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