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> It doesn't say they file the taxes for you Yay for automation, but is using third parties to file taxes not open to fraud and potential error (if you don't d
by ______- 5y ago
> It doesn't say they file the taxes for you
Yay for automation, but is using third parties to file taxes not open to fraud and potential error (if you don't do it yourself?)
- staticassertion 5y agoGusto files your taxes for you.
- dangrossman 5y agoI pay TaxJar to prepare and file my sales tax returns for me. Stripe just acquired them in April.
- hobs 5y agoLiterally all companies pay other people (accountants, lawyers) to do their taxes and in many cases they are third parties so no, that is not the case. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/third-party-authorization-purpose https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
- cperciva 5y agoNot literally all. I can name several small businesses which do their own taxes.
- faeyanpiraat 5y ago-—> small <—-
- cperciva 5y agoYes. The comment I responded to said "literally all companies", not "literally all large companies".
- hobs 5y agofwiw I upvoted you because I should have wrote "a vanishingly small amount of businesses, many who are probably screwing things up pretty badly"
- cperciva 5y agoI suspect that the majority of businesses are small enough that their taxes are trivial and pretty harmless -- at least if you weight by count. If you weight by size -- sure, most business is big business and has complex taxes.
- PeterisP 5y agoThey're just using the word "literally" in its ever more popular sense in which it does not mean that it really does apply to all companies. For example, according to Oxford dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/literally https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... "used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not actually true in a literal sense" or Merriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally "used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible" ; in modern usage, "literally" can be it's own antonym and mean "not literally". Language is fun! :)
- cperciva 5y agoThe redefinition of "literally" to mean "not literally" is an abomination and should not be tacitly accepted.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoYeah, but they would lose their license and customers and be sued for damages. The world is not a libertarian / individualistic wild west.