IRS will study free tax filing options
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IRS will study free tax filing options
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Re: IRS will study free tax filing options
#2How about automated filling options....
Re: IRS will study free tax filing options
#3Hope they do something to simplify/speed up the current paper-based system. The last two years, 6+ months to process and get a refund. So much of a delay that they paid a reasonable amount of interest on the refund being held. Which, of course, must be filed as in come in the next year...
Re: IRS will study free tax filing options
#4How about automated filling options....
This. I'd happily pay the IRS $30 if they could send me an itemized tax bill, that I could either attest to and pay or contest.
They have all the information they need on me, they double-check my work, just do away with the whole dog and pony show.
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#5How about automated filling options....
This. I'd happily pay the IRS $30 if they could send me an itemized tax bill, that I could either attest to and pay or contest. They have all the information they need on me, they double-check my work, just do away with the whole dog and pony show.
> do away with the whole dog and pony show.
Eliminate the personal income tax. Everyone in personal tax side of HR Block and IRS can find some other career which is useful. Rake the beaches or something.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I'd happily pay the IRS $30 if they could send me an itemized tax bill, that I could either attest to and pay or contest. They have all the information they need on me, they double-check my work, just do away with the whole dog and pony show.
> do away with the whole dog and pony show. Eliminate the personal income tax. Everyone in personal tax side of HR Block and IRS can find some other career which is useful. Rake the beaches or something.
Just do a 10% flat federal sales tax + negative income tax if below a certain threshold.
But this is way too logical for the main political parties to implement.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> do away with the whole dog and pony show. Eliminate the personal income tax. Everyone in personal tax side of HR Block and IRS can find some other career which is useful. Rake the beaches or something.
Just do a 10% flat federal sales tax + negative income tax if below a certain threshold. But this is way too logical for the main political parties to implement.
Flat tax wouldn't solve the fundamental problem, which is making people calculate their own taxes.
In the vast majority of countries with personal income tax, everything is automatic and individuals don't need to do anything. Political parties in the US have an incentive to make things as complicated as possible to trick people into thinking ideas like a flat tax would be helpful.
Re: IRS will study free tax filing options
#8How about automated filling options....
This. I'd happily pay the IRS $30 if they could send me an itemized tax bill, that I could either attest to and pay or contest. They have all the information they need on me, they double-check my work, just do away with the whole dog and pony show.
Why would they want to do this? This would seriously hurt the corporate profits of Intuit (maker of TurboTax).
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#9> Unlike many developed countries, the U.S. does not offer free tax filing services for taxpayers, who instead pay billions of dollars every year to highly profitable private tax prep companies.
> The industry has tried to block or subvert a government free tax filing system for decades. ProPublica has reported for years on how companies have sometimes even tricked customers into paying for services that they should have gotten for free. Those articles led to investigations by federal agencies and states as well as a barrage of consumer legal actions. The reporting was also cited by Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, who was behind the new provision. The companies maintain they did nothing wrong.
Propublica has really done a tremendous job driving this forward.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I'd happily pay the IRS $30 if they could send me an itemized tax bill, that I could either attest to and pay or contest. They have all the information they need on me, they double-check my work, just do away with the whole dog and pony show.
Why would they want to do this? This would seriously hurt the corporate profits of Intuit (maker of TurboTax).
why would anyone want intuit to have money they don't deserve to begin with?
oh no! think of the companies.
lol.