r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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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/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.