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I mean, for myself personally, they already have everything from my bank, brokerage and employer and my job is to send them a copy of a bunch of forms they alre
by Natsu 3y ago
I mean, for myself personally, they already have everything from my bank, brokerage and employer and my job is to send them a copy of a bunch of forms they already have and have them do calculations they already did.
- kube-system 3y agoAnd while many of the people on this forum direct deposit their salary from their single white-collar job into a bank and take the standard deduction, tens of millions of Americans don't. That's not to say it wouldn't be impossible to automate our taxes, but we'd probably want to tweak quite a few things in the tax code if we wanted to make automatic filing work without either being onerous or inaccurate.
- Natsu 3y agoThe system I've heard people recommend is that the government gives you a tax form with everything filled out and you can either pay that or redo it yourself with corrections.