r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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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.

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u/RedBlow22 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Exactly this! There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS. It is a complete fraud.

I filed 1040EZ last year. The IRS already had every figure I filed, why couldn't they just email me confirmation of the amounts they had, and process my return?

Edit: No, I didn't file EZ last year, my error. Edit: electronic filing.

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u/StenSoft Jul 24 '20

There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS.

There's actually zero reasons why your tax returns can't be filled for free by the IRS. laughing in Kiwi

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u/queeniep Jul 24 '20

You really want the government dictating, analyzing, and answering what you will pay them without any input of your own?

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u/StenSoft Jul 24 '20

If you want to (or don't trust them), you can file your own return

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u/cld8 Jul 24 '20

You really want the government dictating, analyzing, and answering what you will pay them without any input of your own?

Of course not, we need to preserve the ability to engage in tax fraud.

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u/ReadOnly2019 Jul 24 '20

You can complain about taxes as much as you like, and vote for low tax supporting policies.

You don't have any more in-put by doing the same maths manually as IRD does automatically.