Agreed. I spend time on it and am inefficient but it’s overall worth while taking into account the benefits. There are many critical or difficult things I wouldn’t automate myself but my goal is to reduce my requirements down to substitutable services where my counterparty doesn’t have a monopoly over me.
I’m a freelancer, and make my own documentation supported by invoices/receipts etc. As an employee, yeah, it doesn’t make sense to self-report when the government already has the information it needs. A lot of countries use withholding so only send a statement of what you’ve paid and somewhere to complain when it’s wrong, like you suggest.
I think some change is coming wrt technology. There seems to be more interest again in open source.
whats frustrating with the us is we have a perfect for irs to send us a filled form. Its called the 1040x and you use it to change a tax return you submitted. It has two columns so they could send one of the those or something configured like it, with the left side filled out and you could then sign or make adjustments on the right column and sign.
Agreed. I spend time on it and am inefficient but it’s overall worth while taking into account the benefits. There are many critical or difficult things I wouldn’t automate myself but my goal is to reduce my requirements down to substitutable services where my counterparty doesn’t have a monopoly over me.
I’m a freelancer, and make my own documentation supported by invoices/receipts etc. As an employee, yeah, it doesn’t make sense to self-report when the government already has the information it needs. A lot of countries use withholding so only send a statement of what you’ve paid and somewhere to complain when it’s wrong, like you suggest.
I think some change is coming wrt technology. There seems to be more interest again in open source.
whats frustrating with the us is we have a perfect for irs to send us a filled form. Its called the 1040x and you use it to change a tax return you submitted. It has two columns so they could send one of the those or something configured like it, with the left side filled out and you could then sign or make adjustments on the right column and sign.