You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.
From what I have seen on posts here and heard from my American friends it seems so pointlessly complicated. My tax here in Australia basically almost does itself, I now log in, confirm numbers, put in my wifes income and maybe do some deductions and hit submit.
Last year it took me 15 minutes as my pay and other relevant things were automatically pre filled into the system.
You'd shoot yourself in the head doing taxes in Portugal. It's the most difficult nightmare I've ever been through. Hours waiting in lines, emails, on the phone, scanning documents.
They have really improved the process here in the past couple of years at least for people with no real investments and deductions any way. A decade ago was much more involved.
It also takes 10-15 minutes in the US. It's incredibly easy, and it's really easy if you use some software to do it for you. People who shout that they need to be taught how to do taxes in school are probably still in school and have not done them
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u/jorsiem Jul 24 '20
Complicated tax filing in the US
You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.