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IRL mechanical writing: tax law and education of minors.
Nytemare3701:
I find it very strange that we drop our youth directly into "you have to do this possibly very complicated thing perfectly or you are a criminal" when they hit 18 and have to start filing taxes.
Why not make tax forms a penalty free process for minors? Give them a chance to learn the system and send them back graded forms with the tax return notice. Totally optional of course (because mah freedoms!), but I imagine it would prevent a huge amount of tax form fuck ups on year one along with the associated "let's scare the shit out of a kid just trying to navigate the bureaucracy".
linklord231:
To be fair, usually your first couple of tax filings really are freebies. Chances are, you can file a 1040EZ online, and if you go through a software program it walks you through the whole thing. Put in the information from your W-2 (which most major companies allow you to import directly into your tax software of choice), click "no" on all the questions about whether you bought a house or got married or have any offshore bank accounts, and at the end of it you get a couple hundred bucks back.
Nytemare3701:
That's great and all, but you have to know those things in the first place. I didn't have any problems with it when I started doing mine years ago, but it seems very strange that we can have a legal obligation to do something and have no required education on how to do that thing.
littha:
--- Quote from: Nytemare3701 on May 23, 2016, 05:24:13 AM ---That's great and all, but you have to know those things in the first place. I didn't have any problems with it when I started doing mine years ago, but it seems very strange that we can have a legal obligation to do something and have no required education on how to do that thing.
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The US Tax system confuses me to no end, I have never seen the necessety of tax returns (we dont have them here unless you are self employed or are selling stocks). The general populace doesn't fill in a tax return because their taxes are calculated and applied by their employer before they recieve their wages.
It must be very expensive to process all of those tax returns every year...
altpersona:
i suspect that most people who file 1040EZ via a franchise company are overpaying their taxes.
the tax code compares pretty well w/ 3e :p, the ez version is pretty straight forward... then you get to the pun pun tier.
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