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So why don't they just invoice me in April? I shouldn't have to be bothered with tracking things on my end as well, right?

• seiji 13y ago
  Lobbying by the tax accountant and tax software industry: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
  • twoodfin 13y ago
    To be fair, there's also a strong contingent within the U.S. political right that believes paying taxes should be made as explicit (and, potentially, annoying) as possible, lest the citizenry fail to appreciate how much of their income is being extracted to fund the government. This kind of thinking has popped up on the left from time to time as well, around things like military spending.
    • seiji 13y ago
      The solution there is just to get a receipt showing the breakdown. W-2's are kinda that already at a very coarse-grained scale. We don't have any system in place to show military spending breakdowns or get people upset about it or give people who are upset about it a way to influence changes shrinking it in the future.