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Just fucking send me my filled out tax forms, like they do in other countries, you already know everything, and where you're wrong, I'll contest.
by m0zg 7y ago
Just fucking send me my filled out tax forms, like they do in other countries, you already know everything, and where you're wrong, I'll contest.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoDoesn't work so well for the self-employed, alas.
- m0zg 7y agoOnly if working with individuals. If I, as a consultant, work with a company, that company requires a W9 from me, and they have to report what they paid me. And I also report what I paid myself in salary and pay federal taxes from every paycheck I make out to myself. So at least for me, they know everything there is to know.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoI sell stuff (software, so not really stuff). I certainly file my quarterly estimated taxes (state and federal), but until I file my annual return, the government has no idea how much I've actually earned, nor what my expenses were. Consequently, they're in no position to tell me what I owe them until I've filed my entire return. Perhaps what the commenter meant was "we should fill out forms detailing income + expenses (where applicable) and the government should compute our taxes for us". I'm mostly good with that idea.
- m0zg 7y agoYes, this won't be 100%. But I'd say easily 99% of people could get all this tax bullshit automated away and they wouldn't have to pay Intuit a single penny.