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Taxes in the Netherlands: go to website, log in with digital ID. Next, next, next, next, finish. Done. Less than 5 minutes. Income, savings accounts, mortgage,
by dahwolf 3y ago
Taxes in the Netherlands: go to website, log in with digital ID. Next, next, next, next, finish. Done. Less than 5 minutes. Income, savings accounts, mortgage, all prefilled.
For businesses, complicated households, people dealing with particular life events (divorce, inheritance, special medical deductions) it's a bit more work but still doable.
Our government is strongly incentivized to make taxes easy and even came up with a slogan: "taxes. we can't make them more fun, but we sure can make them easier".
It's clear why they want to make it easy: it takes an army of very expensive staff to address endless questions. And then some even more expensive staff to address tax appeals.