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In general, I agree. However, as someone with an individual tax account, 2 business tax accounts and one general purpose account, far from perfect.

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I find the individual tax return very simple. Compare it to the misery they have in the US.

So is solving formats last theorem

The individual tax return in the US is very simple for 90% of people

I'm not sure about that 90% figure, seems a little high.

25 million people receive the earned income tax credit (i.e. they are poor), and are at high risk of audit https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...

9 million are expats, for whom US tax filing is a special type of hell

15 million are self-employed, which means lots of extra filing https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2016/self-employment-in-the-un...

putting us at circa 50M out of circa 167M returns filed https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/filing-season-statistics-for-we...

means US tax returns are rather complicated for 30% of people before we start to consider high-income earners.

I just went to look up how many people file the 1040EZ, and realized that it doesn't even exist anymore. Today I learned.

Only something like 15-20% of Brits actually have to do a tax return in the first place. I did mine for the first time this year, and it was surprisingly easy.

So it is but I would strongly recommend you speak with an accountant before doing your own tax returns.

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