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The goal of the tax form isn't to help you understand how to minimise your taxes, though? That would be better to put in a separate document.
by lozenge 4y ago
The goal of the tax form isn't to help you understand how to minimise your taxes, though? That would be better to put in a separate document.
- ndriscoll 4y agoI'm talking purely about calculating what's owed. The steps are, to me, pretty obfuscated, but I can see how they'd be easier for someone who's afraid of equations. It's annoying because for people who aren't innumerate, it's hard to have any number sense/ability to check for errors because there's so many steps, and it's hard to see what you're actually calculating even when you know what the human-readable logic is supposed to be. Like I said the best analogy I have is that it's like the instructions are written in assembly.
- astrange 4y agoMany people in the US believe making more money will actually cause them to make less money because they "move to a higher tax bracket". It would probably help if the tax form didn't make them think that. (This is often actually true for poor/disabled people due to welfare cliffs though…)