Tax code is now 74, 000 pages long

[tmleadr03]

How sure are you didn't miss anything when you did yours?

[roberth]

I trust Timothy Geitner(Turbo Tax) to do my taxes so I'm good.

[Ronin13]

I pay a guy who has kept my father's business free from IRS hassle... I think I'm ok. Beyond that, the tax code should really be simplified. I'm ok with a flat income tax... Remember the KISS rule- keep it simple, stupid.

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[Rooskibar03]

Fuck the IRS and the government that continues to waste my money.



Oh and screw you to Kaiser.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Fuck the IRS and the government that continues to waste my money.



Oh a screw screw you to Kaiser.

+1

[Dave_L]

74,000 pages long that can be summed up into one line:

"If you have cash in your pocket, you're not paying enough"

[KestrelBike]

Taxes should be like this : if the dumbest person who isn't legally mentally-disabled can't understand it, you can't tax it and take money from it. So, looks like postcard tax returns are in order. Flipping ridiculous that the amount of money you can avoid forfeiting is determined by how good an accountant you can afford. That's F'd up.

[merl]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/15/303356915/story-links-turbotax-maker-to-fight-against-return-free-tax-system

Proposals to let U.S. taxpayers get a statement from the government that's already filled in with their financial information have been under attack by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, according to ProPublica.

[HoneyBadger]

What don't you guys understand? The more complex and confusing it is, the easier it is for them to control us with it.

See also:
Federal Reserve System
Patriot Act
Affordable Care Act
National Firearms Act
FEMA
NSA
IRS
EPA
DHS
ETC.

[TFOGGER]

Add to this the IRS's habit of turning due process on its head. It's utterly impossible to comply 100% with the tax code because so many parts of it are contradictory and ambiguous. They literally can serve you up with a bill for a bazillion dollars, seize ALL of your assets, and then make you spend a fortune on accountants and lawyers to prove them wrong. Even IF you manage to win, and somehow prove that you don't owe them a shitpile of money, there is absolutely ZERO chance of you ever recovering the expenses incurred while defending yourself, or reversing the damage to your credit score and reputation. The IRS is the closest thing to a 21st century Waffen SS that there is...

[clodhopper]

Add to this the IRS's habit of turning due process on its head. It's utterly impossible to comply 100% with the tax code because so many parts of it are contradictory and ambiguous. They literally can serve you up with a bill for a bazillion dollars, seize ALL of your assets, and then make you spend a fortune on accountants and lawyers to prove them wrong. Even IF you manage to win, and somehow prove that you don't owe them a shitpile of money, there is absolutely ZERO chance of you ever recovering the expenses incurred while defending yourself, or reversing the damage to your credit score and reputation. The IRS is the closest thing to a 21st century Waffen SS that there is...

It is rare to read something on the internet that can be so uplifting and hopeful that you just want to whistle and skip around the room. This was not it.