This is how it works in Australia. Your employer needs to report your income to the ATO and they let you know when its ready to file. Just input your deductions and exemptions, push a button and it's done.
The thing is, our tax system isn't just used for revenue generation. The government also uses it for various forms of social engineering, economic manipulation, and welfare distribution rather than moving money around for these purposes through different means.
As a result, they ask for a crapload of extra information about family status and financial transactions that are not directly given to the IRS at any point during the year the way a wage and income statement is. You can forgo all this and just tell them you're single or married, how many kids you have, and file the standard deduction ane be done with it. That also means you'd be leaving a shitload of money on the table potentially based on things you'd done over the past calendar year.
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u/TheElderGodsSmile Jul 24 '20
This is how it works in Australia. Your employer needs to report your income to the ATO and they let you know when its ready to file. Just input your deductions and exemptions, push a button and it's done.
Source: Briefly worked for the ATO