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Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by hu3 on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:46AM (#24400177)
Interesting. What country is that?
Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by tartoran on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:37PM (#24401496)
Not the USA for sure. One reason taxes are complicated and full of loopholes is to allow rich people to game their taxes and pay next to nothing. They have enough power and influence and their incentive is to keep things as they are: complicated.
Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by laputan_machine on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:47PM (#24400663)
This could be a number of European countries
Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by vladvasiliu on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:36PM (#24401474)
Works the same way in France, too, for regular salaried income.

If you have other income, like dividends, there are a few more boxes to fill, but it's still fairly simple.

Once you start having serious money, you better have a tax lawyer doing this for you, but I suppose this is the case everywhere.

Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by ClikeX on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:04PM (#24401231)
Several European countries. In the Netherlands taxes are just logging in to a web interface and verifying the provided data.

It's usually filed correctly already. So many times you'll just be clicking next.

Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by AnotherGoodName on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:51PM (#24400688)
Could be Australia? Looking at others commenting though could be a lot of other countries.

The USAs tax system where the online portion was essentially privatized by a single company (Turbotax) was pretty jarring.

Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by tdrgabi on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:55AM (#24400255)
It works this way in Sweden. Not sure which country he was referring to.
Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by kwhitefoot on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:57PM (#24410280)
And Norway, except that if you do not need to make any changes you do not need to do anything at all.
Re:Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) by ihaveajob on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:26PM (#24400487)
My taxes in Spain were pretty much like that. You get a letter with the government's estimate. If you agree, you don't have to do anything else.