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 …
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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(We have essentially the system that advocates want here in Japan: if you’re the local equivalent of a W-2 employee you hand your employer a one-pager in December and your tax gets adjusted with refund/etc on that month’s paycheck.)
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California does this as well, for the simple cases at least. Which are probably a good fraction of the population (but not of the paperwork).
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