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Same here in The Netherlands.
by bouke 4y ago
Same here in The Netherlands.
- masklinn 4y agoI think at this point it’s probably easier to list european countries where you still can’t easily e-file.
- Helmut10001 4y agoGermany
- imtringued 4y agoI use Elster.
- Helmut10001 4y agoThis was a reference to this statement: > Asking citizens to pay their fair share of taxes should not include them spending a day or two every year trying to find a piece of paper to mail to an agency which _already has that piece of paper_ and is categorically more equipped to process it. There are so many duplicate fields and redundant parts in Elster and the pre-fill function is a joke.
- kybernetyk 4y agoI'm regularly filing taxes in the UK and in Germany. The German ELSTER system is a bad joke compared to how this is handled in the UK. In the UK it's a bunch of nicely designed web forms with clear worded explanations what they expect you to fill in the fields. In Germany it's ... well you can be masochistic and try to use ELSTER webapp which runs only on certain browsers. With explanations like "fill in here any amount if you fall under §223 EKST, 4 II". So you either get a paid 3rd party software which still isn't the quality of the official UK filling service (somehow Germans have a love for their cryptic explanations directly referencing laws - god forbid someone would use simple and clear explanations) or you pay a professional to do your taxes. Which is what most people do.
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- isoprophlex 4y agoHeavens forbid you have a foreign sounding surname, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_sca...
- ahoef 4y agoThis is as bad as it gets and something that should shame us all. But it has nothing to do with filing e-taxes.