Re:Killing TurboTax
by zimpenfish on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:18AM
(#26354263)
> that only the taxpayer knows about or has documentation of?
Therein lies the rub, I suspect; other countries do know about what you're doing with the deductions and credits which means the tax office can handle all that for you - and, indeed, they are much more suited to be handling this - rather than pushing it onto each individual to try and scrabble together once a year.
I suppose we can add "incoherent fear of the government" to "corporate bogeyman" to the list of reasons the US has a messed up tax situation.
> (nor should they - we don’t want the government to be collecting data on everyone’s charity giving)
You do if there's specific tax breaks for doing that.
Therein lies the rub, I suspect; other countries do know about what you're doing with the deductions and credits which means the tax office can handle all that for you - and, indeed, they are much more suited to be handling this - rather than pushing it onto each individual to try and scrabble together once a year.
I suppose we can add "incoherent fear of the government" to "corporate bogeyman" to the list of reasons the US has a messed up tax situation.
> (nor should they - we don’t want the government to be collecting data on everyone’s charity giving)
You do if there's specific tax breaks for doing that.