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What astounds me about taxes in the USA is that we continue to print tax tables and booklets, and that the government has yet to create any useful software for
by betterunix 14y ago
What astounds me about taxes in the USA is that we continue to print tax tables and booklets, and that the government has yet to create any useful software for filing taxes. Most of the tax filing process could be completely automated if rather than publishing booklets, the government just released software for computing taxes.
Of course, we are talking about the same government that used flat files to manage the entire country's tax data until recently.
- dangrossman 14y agoIt wants to, but there's a vocal lobby against it -- Intuit, H&R Block, and 1.7 million accountants that would like to continue being paid to fill out the forms.
- betterunix 14y agoDo you happen to have a citation? I would like to know who in the government is pushing for this, and how they are proposing it be done (I do not want to see a Windows binary or some Flash applet; I am thinking more along the lines of Prolog or a similar declarative language).
- illuminate 14y agoWhy does it matter? They aren't getting very far. http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/tax-preparers-lobby-heavily-against-simple-filing/ http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/tax-preparers-l...
- wcbeard10 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5443203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5443203