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What about expenses for those that are self employed? What about rental income? What about expenses related to rental properties? Lots of things the governme

• alistairSH 2y ago
  None of which apply to the vast majority of filers. Nobody is saying filing taxes should never be necessary. Only that it shouldn’t be necessary for most people. The flow should be… Employer and financial institutions send info to IRS (they mostly do already). Then, in January, IRS sends a “Is this correct?” notice to residents. If correct, no action is needed. If not correct, then make adjustments.
  • nilamo 2y ago
    100% agree. These conversations always seem to end with lots of "what about"s, as if being easy for the average case was somehow undesirable.
  • dh2022 2y ago
    How would the residents verify the amount on the notice is correct? It sounds like the residents would have to do their taxes to verify the amount on the notice....
    • bobthepanda 2y ago
      It switches the labor from manual input of every line to cross referencing, which is significantly less work
    • superb_dev 2y ago
      They don’t just send the amount, they would also send their work
• bobthepanda 2y ago
  free-file is entirely voluntary. You can still submit the forms yourself if you want. free-file is estimated to cover 47% of Americans. we fund public schools even though a significantly smaller proportion of Americans are children. you would have a hard time finding any government service that applies to 100% of people
• troupo 2y ago
  This is solved by: - IRS pre-fills all it knows about you - you log into to IRS web site to check if everything is correct, and provide additional data or correct invalid data - submit Oh look. By implementing this you may join Sweden and a bunch of other countries in the 21st century.
  • altdataseller 2y ago
    Gotcha. I was under the impression that what the government showed you was 100% final