Hacker News Reader

Filing taxes isn't especially difficult. Knowing that filing taxes isn't especially difficult is not so easy.

If you have absolutely no clue how it works, you're probably going to have to pay someone to do it for you.

There is considerable overlap between people who have no clue how taxes work and people who cannot afford to pay professionals to do it for them.

And yet the taxes need to get done. So many times they do despite not being able to afford it.