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Can we please just solve the much bigger problem which is that ordinary people should not need to use any third party services to create, validate, and submit i
by throwawayboise 4y ago
Can we please just solve the much bigger problem which is that ordinary people should not need to use any third party services to create, validate, and submit individual income tax returns. The IRS can and should be the provider of this software.
- ParksNet 4y agoOr just abandon Income Taxes (57% of US households don't pay any anyway) and embrace Land Value Taxes to fund State and Federal operations. Apply a credit for each child of the owner living in the dwelling to encourage house ownership.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoI mean, Texas essentially runs that way (minus the credit) and I wouldn't exactly call it a utopia here.
- throwawayboise 4y agoI'm not sure I like the idea of land value taxes though I concede there is a better argument that government expenses correlate better to land owned than to income.
- robertlagrant 4y agoI think the issue is less about expenses and more about what the populace will tolerate handing over. The one thing that's good about land value taxes is (perhaps) that they correlate more with wealth, so politicians who get rich from the state at least have to pay tax for their fancy houses.
- andykellr 4y agoWell Intuit has tried very hard to prevent that and so far has been successful. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
- tomrod 4y agoThere is a whole industry around improving digital services the US Government provides (and State governments as well). Check out 18F / USDS sometime.