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Wait till Americans hear that Danes don't need to calculate their taxes and pay a fee to file them.
A fee to pay taxes? Why not include it in the taxes at that point? It's just ridiculous.
Similar to that time I went to the local garage, my car needed a new 12v battery. Fine, it got swapped for a new one. On the receipt, it had the costs broken down. The garage had the audacity to include a line for: "Charging battery 20 Euro".
With Americans, the answer is always some private entity mixed in the middle that will make money out of it.
The "fee" is using a private tax preparation service. In theory skippable, but it's just a pain to do.
Once upon a time, maybe forgivable, private sector embracing useful technology before the government was ready, but now the government actively resists making it easier to file taxes, and coincidentally the tax prep companies give a lot of money to politicians....
i used to prep tax. i had a five page schedule of fees.
i was also known locally as the dude with the most fair bills. that schedule was so long because i didn't bill for shit i didn't do.
well what did you expect
me with my business: selling uncharged, possibly unchargeable batteries
"dISCOUNT?"
But 90% don't even know libraries offer free help filing your taxes yet.
Here in Sweden you generally don't even need help. Naturally there are people with disabilities, or complex financial situations, but that's not most people. For me personally, filing taxes means I log on to the tax office's website, skim through the details to make sure there's no egregious clerical error, and then I click a button to sign off on it. It takes about 5 minutes a year.
If you deal in stocks or buy/sell property a lot it might get a bit more complicated. I think my roomie had deductions because of how much they drives for work, so that added like 5 minutes for supplementary information.
I'm convinced the U.S. makes it complicated for predatory reasons.
Intuit (the company that owns turbotax and creditkarma, among others) has been lobbying with H&R Block for decades to make taxes as complicated as possible so you have to use their software. They just got a massive win from the trump admin too. The fed is shutting down the governments free file website. So now the monopoly is the only choice
libraries have books in them, they are afraid they will catch the woke virus...
But libraries are cOmMuNiSm!
Is there any developed country that does that other than the US for the typical worker?
Canada