ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
LOL. Republicans will always think it's monstrous to pay taxes as long as it funds a government that helps people not like them.
monstrous to complete a tax return, not to pay taxes
LOL. Republicans will always think it's monstrous to pay taxes as long as it funds a government that helps people not like them.
monstrous to complete a tax return, not to pay taxes
With today's software, most people can do it themselves. If your situation is really so complex that you need to pay someone then you probably can afford the cost.
A lot of the complexities have to do with attempting to incentivize desired behavior.
Didn't Republicans crush some sort of free Turbotax the IRS was developing?
Either way, no way the more wealthy should pay lower rates.
Part of a better civics education would indeed champion the power of collective pooling of resources, including money/taxes.
For most folks that’s exactly what their tax return is - comparing what the govt withheld to what the govt should have withheld. The “should have withheld” part is what individuals have to calculate since there are things like charitable contributions that the IRS would have no way of knowing about until the return is filed. Or things like capital gains taxes - there are different rates depending on the taxpayer’s overall tax bracket so the government can’t accurately withhold if they don’t know full year income. Which goes back to the “should have withheld” calculation.
Goes back to someone’s original point in that since the tax code has been used to incentivize various behaviors you basically need the tax return process to let the government know whether you did any of those behaviors. A necessary evil based on the way the tax code has been set up.
Focusing on tax rates solely in a vacuum is nothing but a red herring to distract from our already progressive tax code.
The Top 20% of households fund over 88% of federal income taxes according to the CBO.
This "study" by the NYT is yet another example of the anti-capitalist and "soak the rich" propaganda pushed by many on the left.