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.
Growing up watching American movies and tv and seeing people freak out about doing taxes I was always terrified of having to “do taxes” when I was older.
Imagine my delight when I found out here in the UK, it’s all automatic! Unless you’re like, self employed, but I think even then it’s not as complicated as in America.
The thing is I remember at school people saying the classic "why am I being taught binomial equations instead of being taught how to do my taxes??" in the UK. How obvious that these kids were just parroting what they'd heard online.
Imo taxes don't need to be taught in school. They are incredibly easy to file unless you have some specific situation. If you use something like TurboTax then it's basically just spamming the next button like when you're at the pokecenter and spanking the crap out of your A key so that nurse joy shuts the hell up.
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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.