Re:IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with ta...
by TheCondor on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:25PM
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That's my wish. I'd think the 70% or whatever the number is that takes the standard deduction could be satisfied with a fairly simple app. Businesses, certain business principals, individuals with higher incomes have more complicated taxes but I would think there could be some standard patterns. I also think that most families not in that 70% (or whatever the number is) probably have fairly similar taxes 3 out of 5 years or 4 out of 5 years. If not, maybe there are some loop holes we should look at or some alterations to the tax code to allow for this. Quick books and peach tree and do an awful lot for a lot of businesses, I know it can be done...
Why is it that we can have highly advanced AI, phones, and monitoring systems but so much of what we do is as if we're living before the internet?
Obviously politics (not just a left/right divide, but even at local and budget levels) plays a role. But let's be real, street lights (and cross walk) should be algorithmic and sensor driven, stores should have trivially developed web interfaces (AI can help this just from SAM), SSN being used for identification but also not (and being terrible at it), and so much more. This is literally every industry and ESPECIALLY anything that the government does. I don't want to hear voting online, but please talk to me about DMV online (not literally to me). These things aren't flashy, and maybe that's the problem, but I hate living in both the 22nd century and the 17th at the same time (exaggeration).