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My guess is that at least 85% of the population of Sweden does not have any deductions and can just accept the prefilled values from the tax office (employees).
by JimWestergren 14y ago
My guess is that at least 85% of the population of Sweden does not have any deductions and can just accept the prefilled values from the tax office (employees). For a normal employee there are not so many deductions you can do. I guess travel to and from work is the most common deduction. But if you have a business (not a corp) things is of course very different.
- ScottWhigham 14y agoThat's what my guess was. In that environment then, a government system clearly works well. I wish I had stats about how many US tax returns have deductions - I'd assume it's close to 100%.
- mjn 14y agoIt's actually 35%, if you don't count people who file with just the standard deduction. While technically a "deduction", the standard deduction is pretty dead-simple to compute. It only gets more complicated if you're taking itemized deductions, and that's about 1/3 of taxpayers (though that's still a high proportion of itemized filers compared to many countries). Source: http://taxfoundation.org/article/most-americans-dont-itemize-their-tax-returns http://taxfoundation.org/article/most-americans-dont-itemize...
- ScottWhigham 14y agoExcellent - I should've chosen "itemized" and then, of course, the percentage is lower than 100%. Thanks for the link - good info.