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
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
https://www.freetaxusa.com/ !
Fuck Intuit
libraries have books in them, they are afraid they will catch the woke virus…
But libraries are cOmMuNiSm!