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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And that organization - the IRS - won’t tell you the information they have. They want you to guess and tell them what you have, so they can tell you if you got it right or not.

This really needs to be fixed.

In Australia, the stuff the government knows about you gets prefilled in the tax return form. Not as good as other countries where the entire thing is completed for you, but better than the USA. The form is significantly shorter than the US one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In the USA, you can download your tax transcript at will from the IRS, and it includes all information they have. Commenter you’re replying to is underinformed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

but better than the USA

When the bar is "You get nothing. Zero. Goose-egg." its fairly easy to clear.

The form is significantly shorter than the US one.

A big part of the US tax game is giving you a relatively high base rate and then sending you hunting for deductions and credits. One of the upshots of the Trump Tax Cut has been to raise the standard deduction so high that most of those deductions and credits are worthless. So the form is deceptively long. It's almost impossible to use your Schedule A for anything anymore.