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BrandoElFollito 17 hours ago

In France the web site asks you if your household details changed.

No? 2 more clicks and you are done.

Yes? 2 + nr of changes clicks and you are done. Took me an extra 5 seconds when my son left.

You can make your taxes as complcated as you want but for 95% of the population foling taxes takes a few minutes.

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Amezarak 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Filing a 1040 in the US is also very easy and takes a few minutes and can be done for free.

Another factor most people are ignoring is that state taxes are filed at the same time and each state has its own separate system. These third parties let you fill in and file both at the same time. It would be nice if the US gov did this too but it requires a total restructuring of the American system, and Intuit’s lobbying has nothing to do with why it hasn’t happened or for that matter why the tax codes looks like it does.

	▲	dpark 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Filing a 1040 in the US is also very easy Not for most people. It’s a giant pain in the ass if you have bank accounts and want to file correctly. If all you do is plug in your w-2 and pretend that’s your whole tax return and you don’t care about anything except the standard deduction, sure. That’s not correct for most people. > state taxes are filed at the same time and each state has its own separate system Can we stop pretending like this is a problem insurmountable for the federal government? This idea that TurboTax can make this work but the government can’t is absurd.