Quote from: Hydrogen on August 16, 2022, 10:44:56 PM

It has been claimed that the US tax code is more than 60,000 pages long. Cheesy

Claimed!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/how-long-is-the-tax-code-it-is-far-shorter-than-70000-pages.html

Quote from: jackg on Today at 01:01:37 AM

The tax laws of the UK are over 16000 pages long and yet those seem to be handled quite well by both the authorities and people.

When communism fell we got our first Fiscal and Tax code, it was roughly 400 pages long, it was so easy to understand for everybody, it was so simple, and the results were marvelous!!! Nobody paid a dime, nobody paid taxes, only the few who worked with legal contracts had the taxes stopped at the employer level, VAT was a joke and receipts were the punchlines.
It was so badly written that all you had to do to run a business was to bankrupt it, then get all sorts of debt since by those stupid laws nobody could file a new claim for debt while you were bankrupt and after 5 years of not pursuing legal action, you would get all your debts erased.
Was there a surprise when large commerce chain stores tried to start a business here nobody, but nobody was willing to give them merchandise without paying upfront, well it was for them.

Back to what the US is doing is normal, it's about damn time you put all the resources to use, I still can't believe how far behind the country is when it comes to payments and money transfers, and don't even get me started on those checks!

Can you imagine how hard is to have an online tax form where you can just click on a button that says personal details unchanged and you don't have to complete again name your wife's name, your address, your year of birth and if your only income comes from monthly wage you don't have to fill anything it because it's already in the system filled by your employer? Same for state pensions?
Whenever I head IRS forms I can only think of Homer Simpson:

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Marge, how many kids do we have? Oh, no time to count. I'll just estimate- uh, nine