IRS will study free tax filing options

Post by water8 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 3:59 AM UTC

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sillystuff wrote: post #11

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> 10% flat federal sales tax Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn. The IRS could just present a form behind a login with an itemized fully calculated tax return with an accept? "yes" / "no". They already have all the information they need, and already do the work when checking retur…

> Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn. This is a feature not a bug of that plan. There’s no amount of tax that’s too low when the answer to “How much do you need to be happy?” is more.

Post by mangoTangoBango » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 4:46 AM UTC

water8 wrote: post #21

thisarticle wrote: post #18

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> Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn. This is a feature not a bug of that plan. There’s no amount of tax that’s too low when the answer to “How much do you need to be happy?” is more.

Well when tax is zero and there is no military to protect your assets thereby making them worthless as they are stolen. So perhaps there is a "too low"

Post by tonfreed » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 5:40 AM UTC

rufus_foreman wrote: post #24

ProPublica of course are the supposed "reporters" who cooperated with criminals in the IRS to publicize private tax returns in order to serve their political agenda. I do not trust ProPublica. I do not trust the IRS. I do not trust those who trust ProPublica. I do not trust those who trust the IRS.

Post by tonfreed » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

cheeselip420 wrote: post #16

Any government bureaucracy with forms and worksheets should be 100% replaced with software. Change my mind. I do think api.irs.gov would be terrifying though given the ACA debacle... Note that I'm not saying we don't need agents or enforcement or anything like that - I mean the paper-pushing, form-filing bullshit that eats up countless hours of time.