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I would strongly disagree with > Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to rais

by munk-a 6y ago

I would strongly disagree with > Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to raise taxes if people have to manually do their taxes every year. I think republicans tend to be against easy tax filing since it would involve wider access to the plethora of loopholes that exist in our tax system. Automatic filing would really level the playing field if small businesses and individuals got access to some[1] of the loopholes that corporations regularly exploit. 1. Ignoring, of course, accounting tricks required to set some of these up by offshoring profits/income and other advanced techniques around valuation.

leetcrew 6y ago
this doesn't really make sense to me. most people have pretty simple tax situations. no matter how much you pay your accountant, there aren't many loopholes for a W-2 employee to exploit. "easy tax filing" doesn't have to mean that the government guarantees an absolutely optimal filing (how could it? it's not clear to me that it understands its own rules without ambiguity). it could instead mean that your return gets prepopulated with the most obvious filing strategy for your situation. for most people, the obvious way would be the same as the optimal way, and people with weird situations could keep doing their own taxes.