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Based on what? The French tax system is pretty simple. Taxes are high, but simple. The website you use to file your taxes is also pretty simple, and every sing
by sofixa 1y ago
Based on what?
The French tax system is pretty simple. Taxes are high, but simple. The website you use to file your taxes is also pretty simple, and every single field has a button that explains what it is about and in which cases you should write stuff inside.
The only annoying parts are if you have accounts outside of France, you have to declare them. And if you get dividends/capital gains in foreign currencies outside of the EU, you have to calculate yourself how much tax you owe using a bunch of tables per country and currency.
- realusername 1y agoFor basic taxes yes but you have annex forms which are 20 pages long in the french system.
- sofixa 1y agoYes, and? Nobody would fill all annexes. They are annexes because they're not part of the common path, and are only needed in specific scenarios. Their length is kind of irrelevant.
- terminalshort 1y agoThis is exactly the way it works in the US. All the really complex parts are never even used by 99% of people.
- Thorrez 1y ago20 pages? My 2024 full pdf from turbotax was 644 pages.
- QQ00 1y ago644 pages? WTF
- xeromal 1y ago80% are just boilerplate text with one text box per page. It's shitty paperwork but it's not 644 pages of tons of input. There person you're replying to probably owns a business or works in multiple states or something goofy like that. They're on the upper end of complicated
- Thorrez 1y agoI do not own a business. In 2024 I only worked in CA. However, a couple years back I worked in MI for a few days, which means for the following 4 years I have to file MI taxes as well due to RSU vesting. So my 2024 taxes were federal + CA + MI. For details about why RSU vesting requires 4 years of MI taxes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676698