Re:IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
by Rebelgecko on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:50PM
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Why are investments a problem? The IRS gets a copy of my capital gains at the end of the year. For probably 90% of people, the IRS has enough info to do their taxes for them (as evinced by all the times where the IRS tells someone they were $2 off or whatever on their calculations).
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Re:IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
by pfisch on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:56PM
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Even if you are just a home owner that buys a high efficiency furnace the IRS doesn't have enough info to do your taxes properly.
Re:IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:21PM
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And in most countries, you'd just add that to the tax return information they send you. And if that furnace gets you discounts over years, you should only have to do that once - the next years, they'll have the information.
Or alternatively: They can directly subsidize high efficiency furnaces, which would actually allow more people to have them than a tax credit will since it would lower the barrier to entry (price).