Sorta, there’s also another group of people that have a vested interest in making taxes as painful as possible. The Republican Party, because they want taxes to have such a negative association with them so that it’s easier to sell their platform of tax cuts, budget cuts, ect. ect.
The thing is that the federal IRS, and most (if not all) state level tax offices already know how much you owe in part because banks and employers are legally required to send your total money income info onwards to the IRS and such. So we could absolutely do away with the system we have in favor of system where the government sends you a bill and you check the government’s work rather than the current system of the government checking your work while knowing full well what the answer actually is. But we don’t adopt it because the tax prep businesses will cry about jobs being lost, and a lot of politicians don’t want that technicality hanging over their head so we’re stuck with the dogshit ass system we got.
Sorta, there’s also another group of people that have a vested interest in making taxes as painful as possible. The Republican Party, because they want taxes to have such a negative association with them so that it’s easier to sell their platform of tax cuts, budget cuts, ect. ect.
The thing is that the federal IRS, and most (if not all) state level tax offices already know how much you owe in part because banks and employers are legally required to send your total money income info onwards to the IRS and such. So we could absolutely do away with the system we have in favor of system where the government sends you a bill and you check the government’s work rather than the current system of the government checking your work while knowing full well what the answer actually is. But we don’t adopt it because the tax prep businesses will cry about jobs being lost, and a lot of politicians don’t want that technicality hanging over their head so we’re stuck with the dogshit ass system we got.