Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
by OJFord on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:36PM
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I don't envy it at all either - but it's also because theirs is so much more complicated that even if you consider it broadly the same principle, far more Americans fall into the needing to self-assess (as we call it) category since, for example, they have 'a whole bunch of deductibles'.
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Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
by Broken_Hippo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:15AM
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IIRC, the vast majority of americans use 1040 and 1040EZ. Both of these can be automated.
Norway just asks upfront. Yes, I have to try to predict what I'm going to make that year, but yes, I can update it if I change jobs. Marriage, children, etc all gets factored in. If I don't change things, I think it stays the same. The vast majority of folks don't have to self-assess like Americans do, and thinking that we need to do it more seems to be more leaning towards an attitude of Exceptionalism - which seems to be just as much an excuse as it is something folks have pride in.