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Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online
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It's basically the same thing in Sweden, but in the rare chance that the tax agency makes a mistake, it's usually resolved before summertime without any court issues.
American here, I didn't work this year (stay at home parent) and we only need to file my wife's taxes. If it goes smoothly it'll take an hour, minimum, and we're usually unsure if we filed it all out correctly...
And even if they accept your return and pay you then you still can’t be sure
Doing it this way would cost the IRS less than the way our current system runs.
In Hungary, the country of the far left Orbán quasi-dictatorship, the tax filing process is if you are an employee, in May you go to the website and click okay if you're happy with it. If you forget, it's just an implied acceptance of what you've seen, so most people never do anything and some don't even know how to.
If Orban is far left I'd hate to see what you call right. Literal Satan establishing hell on earth?
It was sarcasm, a reaction to Musk calling somewhat sensible tax filing far left.
That said Orbán did price caps on staples and petrol and 13th month pensions, so it's not like these idiots have a consistent ideology.
BTW Hungary has a party that's nominally right of Orbán, it's made of antivaxers, literal neonazies and other assorted loons.
Nah, they're being facetious.
Does everyone have to file taxes? In the UK, unless you're renting a property or otherwise have some income on the side like that, you don't file taxes at all, it's just all done automatically.
Most everyone in the US files. Even if the gov withheld taxes from your payroll you still file. The gov knows how much you made, now you have to arrive at the same number or you can get fined if you claim more and they catch you in an audit.
What's funny is, on the tax form there's a field asking if you got money from illegal activity like selling drugs.....they expect you to declare it and pay the percentage.... The ultimate gov will look the other way as long as they get their cut.
They don't expect that you'll actually report illegal income. They just want to have tax evasion as another charge to add to the indictment in court. Wisconsin's lawmakers were pretty open about that ploy when they added a tax on illegal drugs years ago.