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You are right. My argument would be that the fundamental problems may not be solvable. Though I think in smaller countries the problems can be mitigated effecti

by bhewes 15y ago

You are right. My argument would be that the fundamental problems may not be solvable. Though I think in smaller countries the problems can be mitigated effectively. Example I believe in Singapore you can pay your taxes online.

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dangrossman 15y ago
Probably 95% of individual returns in the US can be handled by one of the high-end copies of TurboTax from your local office supply store. If Intuit can build it, so could the IRS and offer it as a web app. They could also put the data from W2s, 1099s, etc they receive online for you to view and automatically fill out most of your return with it. It's a technology issue, just one the IRS has to tackle, not a startup.
- bhewes 15y ago
  It is still a political problem as the IRS has not already done it even though the tech is available. But you are right it is not something a startup can do. Though a startup could develop web apps for states. God help them if they do.
Too 15y ago
In little Sweden you can. See http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skatteverket.se%2F4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80009.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=... for example of the tax-services you can do online, including tax declaration and printing birth cert. There are also many other governmental services, mentioned in the article, that you can manage online but through other websites, using the same log-in though. For example pensions, health insurance, road-tax, car-licence and student loans. Most of it actually works very smoothly, you can even register a company without touching a paper. But it doesn't solve the issue of all the rules you have to know beforehand and admittedly, doing your taxes on the computer is almost as boring as on paper, there is no way around that.

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You are right. My argument would be that the fundamental problems may not be solvable. Though I think in smaller countries the problems can be mitigated effecti

by bhewes 15y ago

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dangrossman 15y ago
Probably 95% of individual returns in the US can be handled by one of the high-end copies of TurboTax from your local office supply store. If Intuit can build it, so could the IRS and offer it as a web app. They could also put the data from W2s, 1099s, etc they receive online for you to view and automatically fill out most of your return with it. It's a technology issue, just one the IRS has to tackle, not a startup.
- bhewes 15y ago
  It is still a political problem as the IRS has not already done it even though the tech is available. But you are right it is not something a startup can do. Though a startup could develop web apps for states. God help them if they do.
Too 15y ago
In little Sweden you can. See http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skatteverket.se%2F4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80009.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=... for example of the tax-services you can do online, including tax declaration and printing birth cert. There are also many other governmental services, mentioned in the article, that you can manage online but through other websites, using the same log-in though. For example pensions, health insurance, road-tax, car-licence and student loans. Most of it actually works very smoothly, you can even register a company without touching a paper. But it doesn't solve the issue of all the rules you have to know beforehand and admittedly, doing your taxes on the computer is almost as boring as on paper, there is no way around that.