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Along the same lines, there used to be three different tax forms: the standard 1040 form, then two progressively more simplified forms for people who didn't wan
by sbierwagen 7y ago
Along the same lines, there used to be three different tax forms: the standard 1040 form, then two progressively more simplified forms for people who didn't want to do itemized deductions.
Well, the GOP takes power in 2016, and declares that they will "reduce" paperwork by removing... the two simplified forms! Now everyone has to fill out the complete 1040, which is also now strangely cramped and calls out to a dozen different worksheets, since the GOP also wanted to brag about how the form "fits on a postcard", and it has to contort itself to use every square inch of paper. A miserable experience! I miss the 1040-EZ.
- wool_gather 7y agoSee the sibling comments about Grover Norquist; this wasn't incompetence: there's actually a pretty strong political group in favor of this kind of thing.
- jxramos 7y agoFrom a refactoring perspective this actually made a lot of sense. One source of truth (1040) not three (1040, 1040A, 1040EZ). The complex parts of the 1040 have been refactored into separate functions named Schedule 1, Schedule2, ..., Schedule 6. The problem isn't in the forms its in the laws which necessitate line items in the form to begin with. If you think about it the 1040 has taken on the more simple case as the default and the more complex cases have been shifted into schedules. That's a good thing in my book.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThe new 1040 is not much different than a 1040EZ. Just split over two sheets with a few extra cells for filling in results from optional forms.