• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ah, my friend.

    Mayhaps you’ve been hitting the halfling’s leaf a bit hard? They’re not taking about paying taxes, but filing them.

    Those 'Muuuricans need to spend a whole lot of time every year doing paperwork on shit the government already has all their info on, so their corporations can fatten even more.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4anUL-LvY

    My guess is you might be European an we mostly use return-free tax filing systems. In that the government sends you a paper saying “this is what we’re going by, any objections?” and then you have a few months to claim tax deductions if there’s anything you’ve not deducted. Otherwise you don’t need to “file” the taxes in any way.

    But yah general sentiment against taxes is stupid.