Hahaha no. That would be too easy. Americans, please correct me if I get any of this wrong:
The IRS knows how much tax each American owes, but each American has to fill in a needlessly complicated and obscurely worded form (or set of forms) outlining their incomings and outgoings and then calculate the tax they owe for themselves, and then take steps to pay that amount.
And if they get it wrong they are punished.
There’s software that helps with the needlessly complicated paperwork, but the company that makes it is in cahoots with the IRS, and so buying a copy or hiring an accountant are all-but necessary to get it right and not be punished.
This is largely the reason it stays the way it is, because an entirely unnecessary industry is being propped up by the struggles of American taxpayers.
Oh and sometimes the IRS gets their internal calculations wrong, and if you don’t get what they got, you have many, many hoops to jump through to prove that what you did was right and what they did was wrong.
you are solid with the exception of needing a tax advisor(it’s actually super simple if you are a typical w2 worker), and that the IRS is not in kahoots with the tax companies, they actually were up until Trump became president working on a free tax submission system that didn’t require you to put any values in, because trying to get anywhere with passing anything better was met with massive lobbying from those tax companies.
Of course trump fired the entire dev team working on it almost immediatly, but it’s still up /for now/ just likely isn’t going to be worked on anymore
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Hahaha no. That would be too easy. Americans, please correct me if I get any of this wrong:
The IRS knows how much tax each American owes, but each American has to fill in a needlessly complicated and obscurely worded form (or set of forms) outlining their incomings and outgoings and then calculate the tax they owe for themselves, and then take steps to pay that amount.
And if they get it wrong they are punished.
There’s software that helps with the needlessly complicated paperwork, but the company that makes it is in cahoots with the IRS, and so buying a copy or hiring an accountant are all-but necessary to get it right and not be punished.
This is largely the reason it stays the way it is, because an entirely unnecessary industry is being propped up by the struggles of American taxpayers.
Oh and sometimes the IRS gets their internal calculations wrong, and if you don’t get what they got, you have many, many hoops to jump through to prove that what you did was right and what they did was wrong.
The American Dream™
you are solid with the exception of needing a tax advisor(it’s actually super simple if you are a typical w2 worker), and that the IRS is not in kahoots with the tax companies, they actually were up until Trump became president working on a free tax submission system that didn’t require you to put any values in, because trying to get anywhere with passing anything better was met with massive lobbying from those tax companies.
Of course trump fired the entire dev team working on it almost immediatly, but it’s still up /for now/ just likely isn’t going to be worked on anymore