• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, fortunately I live in America where filing taxes is free and takes like five minutes out of the year

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      10 months ago

      But why do they make everyone file a tax return? In the UK it’s only necessary if you’re self-employed or very wealthy. Is it because they like auditing poor people so they have an excuse not to audit the rich?

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        10 months ago

        DK,DC. The effort needed to file a tax return is negligible. It’s literally as easy as getting a piece of paper in the mail, going to a website, and copying like four numbers and then getting a few hundred dollars in the mail. The only scenarios where this takes more than 5 minutes is if you’re either self-employed or have a lot of wealth in assets you want to claim.

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          Yeah, fuck everyone else who has multiple jobs, is partially or fully self employed, has taxable assets and isn’t allowed to use the free software.

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            10 months ago

            Anyone can file directly to the IRS, point blank, it just might take more than five minutes. I filed for four years when I was self-employed just fine. I filed for multiple jobs this year for free.