One of the least heralded and most important technological advances of the last 20 years is a battle getting fought one piece of paper at a time to replace workflows with web applications. It’s slow, boring, and enormously impactful. https://twitter.com/ctbeiser/status/1082073264925507584 …
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“IRS employment down from 19X0” You’d certainly hope so, now that they’re no longer artisanally handcrafting every comparison of a 1040 and W-2.
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A lot of people profess to want this. It’s feasible for a slice of US taxpayers, but the exceptions constitute most of the paperwork burden and most of the tax burden. (“Anyone with a Schedule C” for one.) It’s also politically a non-starter.
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The IRS has been doing a great job automating workflow and doing more with less Problem is that when you have to take complicated facts and put them on simple forms to save on Gov side it pushes much of the work to taxpayers Keep in mind there are penalties for getting it wrong
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Too many of these improvements feel like papering over the cracks. Yes we can deposit cheques by mobile phone and file tax returns online but in other countries cheques now barely exist (ubiquitous electronic payments) and regular employees don't have to file tax returns at all.
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In Sweden you can do pretty complex tax declaration online. Salarymen just answer “ok” via text message and be done with it.
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