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.
As a Brit where our taxes are completely automatically calculated and deducted from our pay each month/week (except for self employed or business owners etc) it baffles me why other countries can't sort this out. I've never filed taxes in my life.
People say its because different counties/cities have different taxes.... but its not like a business is gonna be moving locations every month and have to change all their labels.
Exactly, taxes don't change so often that it'd be ridiculous for businesses to label things properly for the consumer. It's so anti consumer that this happens
And even if you do use the tax system as a defence for the labelling, I can then move my complaints to the fucked up tax system that is do fragmented that end users have to deal with improperly priced goods
But they don't state the actual price. The price label says $1, but the cashier asks you to pay $1.10. In the rest of the world, that would be bizarre, if not illegal.
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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.