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ya, so why not just send me a statement once a month, the power company does that, the cell phone company does that, the city I live in does that, etc. Just send me a statement, you made this, you get this much deduction for the other crap or whatever. No stupid W2, W4 1040, bunch of mumbo jumbo from the 1950's that a few companies are ripping us off over IMO.
That's basically how it works in Germany. There is a formula in the law that specifies how much if your salary gets deducted every month based on specific criteria such as your marital status, your religion (yeah church taxes), whether it is your primary or secondary job etc. That amount is calculated to be enough (a little bit to much in fact) to cover taxes for most people employed with a single job. Unless you hav…
I like it, my city government sends me a statement once a month, says you owe this amount for police, that amount for fire, some other amount for sewer and water, some amount for schools. Maybe I disagree with some of the amounts, fair to discuss, that's democracy. But they don't play that idiotic game the feds do, you owe a certain amount, if you guess it correctly, or if you on purpose short it but we don't catch you at it, then nothing happens. But if we randomly catch you getting it wrong then we fuck with you. I hate that.