Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes?
by Karunamon on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @02:32PM
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You're being rather reductive, here. If I had just filed my W2 and 1040, I'd have missed the credit, and the existence of that 1098-T sent to the IRS wouldn't mean that I'd have received a check in the mail later. Also, the credit applies if you start school in the first three months of the new tax year,
This is what I mean. Comparing income tax filing (with a W2 and a 1040 by mail, with nothing else, that's at least 3-4 pages of work, with no guarantee that you're paying what you ought to be) with a restaurant bill (an itemized receipt of things you bought) is fundamentally dishonest.
Every comparison made is against single charge, a single payment, based on a usually simple formula, rather than an entire freaking body of law.
This is what I mean. Comparing income tax filing (with a W2 and a 1040 by mail, with nothing else, that's at least 3-4 pages of work, with no guarantee that you're paying what you ought to be) with a restaurant bill (an itemized receipt of things you bought) is fundamentally dishonest.
Every comparison made is against single charge, a single payment, based on a usually simple formula, rather than an entire freaking body of law.