• wizebin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For w2 employees that makes a whole lot of sense, for the self employed it doesn’t really seem possible for the govt to calculate

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      1 year ago

      Are there that many self employed? Most other countries seem to handle this the, imo, sensible way, where employees are auto-taxed, and the self employed file their own.

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            1 year ago

            100% agreed, the complications are part of the equation but shouldn’t stop us from making a basic system that works for most people. As long as there’s a way to manually enter and categorize exceptions in the form of assets, extra income, investments, etc it would work for almost everyone.