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In the last decade there's the rise of all the online tax prep software (that isn't run by Intuit) which just ... asks you questions. That's it, that's the hac
by hobs 2y ago
In the last decade there's the rise of all the online tax prep software (that isn't run by Intuit) which just ... asks you questions.
That's it, that's the hack that solves the problem of all the weird deductions - reducing it to word problems that you can answer - there's definitely a few dozen of them though.
- jnwatson 2y agoI don't think that "can be reduced to a questionnaire" is an effective indicator of simplicity. The IRS forms themselves are essentially word problems. The DeepMind personality cloner just asks questions. It is definitely not simple.
- hobs 2y agoIt's about as simple as it can get, plain questions - "Do you own a boat or did you buy one this year?" At some point there is irreducible complexity, but most tax questions are of this nature for all normal people - a huge portion of people could file a form 1040ez and be done with it.