>No other industrialized country asks its citizens to jump through as many hoops to calculate their taxes as ours. Except for Canada? The same sort of situatio

>No other industrialized country asks its citizens to jump through as many hoops to calculate their taxes as ours. Except for Canada? The same sort of situation exists here. The Canada Revenue Agency enthusiastically supports the private tax preparation companies. It's pretty much the same deal except perhaps a little worse. The private companies will extend you charity here as well, but if you have any amount of income you don't even get online forms to fill out. Presently in Canada the only way for a citizen to file their own taxes is by filling out paper forms. Ironically the easiest way to get the forms is to download them off the internet from the CRA website. Then you fill them out and mail them. The really ridiculous thing is that since the CRA already has all the information it doesn't really matter how you fill out the forms. Just get your deductions and withholding on there and you are good. You can put whatever other gibberish on there you want. I actually file on paper on the principal that I don't want to support a corrupt system. This year I am considering just drawing pictures on the parts that are ignored and putting down a hundred billion jillion dollars as my refund... I strongly suspect that the people made to do the data entry could use a bit of entertainment.