I don't really have anything substantive to say; really just stacking onto this. My tax payments are not "regular enough" for the IRS. I generally end up owing

I don't really have anything substantive to say; really just stacking onto this. My tax payments are not "regular enough" for the IRS. I generally end up owing $15k at the end of the year. It's an inconvenience for me, but I'm happy to pay it since, you know, taxes pay for things to be done. These folks have the gall to charge me money for that now, with threatening letters to boot, suggesting that I should supplement my W2 tax contributions that my employer makes quarterly. Portland, the city I live in, mimicked this system entirely and now demands the same for smaller amounts. I'm left feeling that we gave these folks billions to make things better and the people they went after weren't billionaires; they're instead nickel and diming high income earners. I don't claim anything on my taxes, I don't have much (if any) business income, and I'm not married. I have the simplest taxes in the world and these folks can't advise my company on the correct amount they should deduct for taxes and I'm the one that gets a bunch of legalese in the mail. This to say, the billionaires running the system are certainly something but so are the people at the IRS who had an opportunity to actually do something with all that money. I look at them less with the lens of victims of partisanship and look at them more as part of the problem. In my case they know exactly how much money I've made quarter to quarter and could provide better advice to the company I work for. They also could have a system to notify me ahead of time so I have a chance to pay the bill they're expecting. They did none of these, but instead shook the couch for change.