Re:US Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Simplify Tax Filing
by rsync on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:04AM
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"The people who don't itemize have almost no burden right now; you can fill out a 1040EZ or use TurboTax free edition."
Which, by the way, is ridiculous.
There is a very large swath of the US population (people like this, using 1040EZ) that should not file taxes at all.
The government already knows what you made, it already knows what it withheld, and it already knows your (most likely) net refund. It's a pointless, stupid, almost spiteful waste of time to make people go through these motions - almost daring them to get the numbers wrong ... the numbers that the IRS already knows.
Any substantive, meaningful tax reform needs to remove filing requirements for this type of taxpayer.
Which, by the way, is ridiculous.
There is a very large swath of the US population (people like this, using 1040EZ) that should not file taxes at all.
The government already knows what you made, it already knows what it withheld, and it already knows your (most likely) net refund. It's a pointless, stupid, almost spiteful waste of time to make people go through these motions - almost daring them to get the numbers wrong ... the numbers that the IRS already knows.
Any substantive, meaningful tax reform needs to remove filing requirements for this type of taxpayer.