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I don't mind paying taxes. But I was definitely cursing this last week as I spent hours filling out forms to calculate numbers that the IRS has already calculated on its own.

I want a letter in the mail saying, "If you don't fill out any paperwork, this is the amount we will return to you/ bill you for. If you get a different number, send in your paperwork by 4/15."

Doing taxes is a ridiculous waste of most people's time.



California's ReadyReturn program does this already for state taxes. I wish federal taxes could be that easy...


They can be this easy, but companies like Intuit lobby (successfully so far) against it




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