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[–] 8 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

But 90% don't even know libraries offer free help filing your taxes yet.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Here in Sweden you generally don't even need help. Naturally there are people with disabilities, or complex financial situations, but that's not most people. For me personally, filing taxes means I log on to the tax office's website, skim through the details to make sure there's no egregious clerical error, and then I click a button to sign off on it. It takes about 5 minutes a year.

    If you deal in stocks or buy/sell property a lot it might get a bit more complicated. I think my roomie had deductions because of how much they drives for work, so that added like 5 minutes for supplementary information.

    I'm convinced the U.S. makes it complicated for predatory reasons.

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