Would be better if people would vote for candidates that would work to eliminate income taxes entirely.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Or, at least for under 100K/yr.
100k will be minimum wage in 10 years based on inflation but tax brackets would still be at the top....
Silly MedPiggy, ~~Tax~~ breaks are for Billionaires.
Cute. Unrealistic, but cute.
yknow, it would be cool if there was like, income tax.
And only that. I think that would make me happy.
It does seem so complex having all these different taxes on everything rather then just taxing it all from incone
it really is. The primary reason they do it is because it makes tax more flexible, but realistically, income tax is realistically going to account for everything.
If you spend more, you're making more, or spending less and spending more elsewhere, so it really doesn't matter. Just having income tax on a federal and state level would be so much nicer. Because then you don't have to think about your tax at all. If you work with an employer, they would basically write that shit for you. If you work for yourself, it's easier than it currently is, most likely.
tangential rant but property tax is actually fucked and can eat dicks. I bought the land, fuck you, leave me alone.
Imagine going to the only grocery store available, there are no prices on any of the items, you shop there because you're starving and have no choice.
You go to the checkout after each time you shop and there is a single cashier that says this:
"Fuck you. In about a couple months we'll demand that you figure out how much you owe us. If you don't figure it out then we'll potentially place criminal charges against you. Thanks for shopping here."
You realize that you have no fucking clue about how much the stuff you bought costs because it changes all the time and nothing is labelled and there's no system for keeping track.
Welcome to the tax system in America.
It only works that way if you are willfully ignorant. As does everything else in the world.
You can easily calculate your taxes, and your necessary withholdings from that on your W4. There's even a stupid simple grid to match your income to on one of the pages...
It's like a grocery store where you know the prices, but they're rounded to the nearest $0.01. but at checkout you have to make up the difference that wasn't shown on the price tags. Which overall constitutes a minimal portion of your overall bill.
Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, And Washington are the states you can use this in, since the site in the OP just gives you a link to the IRS website that lists the states.
Thanks for this!
Yeah, was bummed my state isn't supported this year. Hopefully next year.
Hope while inaction or call your local politicians
I was so excited to do this to show interest, and then they brought up the ID. Me.
Never heard of it, so I go and look.
You expect me to fucking sign up for some weird 3rd party bullshit, when I would be happy to do that with an actual fucking government supplied way of letting you know I’m the actual person filing my taxes?
No, man. Fuck that, and fuck your stupid ass way of handling it.
I had such high hopes for it, but with the embarrassment of ID.me I just went back to FreetaxUSA.
They're working to improve login.gov to support the level of user verification needed for this service, but it isn't there yet. Hopefully next year when tax time rolls around again.
Thank you for letting me know.
I probably came off strong, but I am majorly disappointed. This was one step closer to how other countries do their taxes, which is mostly just signing and sending it back. As it should be.
Hopefully we can get something before they shut it down, because I can see a LOT of people seeing that sketchy ID.me and noping out just like I did.
Not at all! I had to use ID.me for unemployment and it skeeved me out too.
This is great, but I still don't understand why we even need to file anything.
For one, to claim deductions (such as for children, if you made improvements to your house to make it more energy efficient, etc, or if you itemize instead of taking the standard deduction).
To give rich people and corporations the chance to fudge the numbers and pay no tax of course!
I don't think I'd be able to use this service even if it existed in my state, my self-employed taxes are apparently too complicated even though I currently only have one contract/employer. They need to simplify the tax code.
You could probably use the IRS’s free fillable forms (https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-forms; totally free and works for a lot of forms), but it’s harder to use.
This is what I use but it takes 4-5 hrs usually.
Would've liked to know this 2 days ago before I filed my taxes.
Well I'll try it out next year.
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