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I really don't mind paying taxes It drives me up the wall that we as a country have to all do this stupid homework assignment every year.
by wombat-man 6y ago
I really don't mind paying taxes
It drives me up the wall that we as a country have to all do this stupid homework assignment every year.
- king_magic 6y agoExactly. I am more than happy to pay my fair share, which is considerable. But I am extremely not happy to have to fight through arcane, barely understandable accounting homework each year - and as a small business owner to boot, shell out a few hundred to a tax service to make sure I don't screw it up doing it myself. It's absurd.
- alistairSH 6y agoAgreed. Living in a functioning society, in the "western" world, is pretty nice and I'm happy to pay for it. But, having to spend a day or more every March, or pay a CPA a few hundred dollars, is infuriating. My taxes aren't that complicated - two upper middle class salaries, a normal (for dense suburb) mortgage, and no kid at home any more (he flew the coop 3 years ago). Outside of the years we were impacted by AMT (a whole other rant), the IRS knows exactly what we earn, what we've paid to date, and determining our mortgage obligation should be trivial (submission from bank to IRS or similar). They should just mail me an index card that says "your good!" or "you still owe $1200" or similar and that's that.