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Which many countries do already. In France, before this year, if you were an employee, you rarely filled a tax form, you just validated a prefilled one, usuall
by sametmax 8y ago
Which many countries do already.
In France, before this year, if you were an employee, you rarely filled a tax form, you just validated a prefilled one, usually with one click on the internet.
Now it's just taken every month from your salary, and you get a chance to correct it once a year.
- mcv 8y agoMany countries do this, because in those countries, the government actually represents the interests of people. If there was ever a clear case of the US government putting the needs of businesses before the needs of the people, it's this: keep taxes as complex as possible in order to create business opportunities to sell products to make it easier again. It's a complete bullshit business that shouldn't be necessary at all. It exists only by the grace of an incomprehensible tax code.
- newsgremlin 8y agoWouldn't generalise that much in saying my government (UK) is truly representative more than the US, but in the US in general, it seems that whatever business exists there has to be something for the middleman.
- taurath 8y agoAlso whatever government function exists must be open to a middleman to take their profit out of it. The US is optimizing for businesses and investors, not citizens.
- sametmax 8y agoI wouldn't call the french tax system simple or made to be easily understood. Here is the code for income taxes : https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source-code https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source... But I agree the french gov is less into business.