Ask HN: Anyone knows how to simplify taxes?

Tax on consumption rather than income. Just keep one simple tax, "consumption tax". This has lot of benefits like reduction of waste, equal access to resources, reduction in poverty etc.

I think Amazon do.

Yes.

We (http://publicdomaincompany.com/) are going to do it if someone doesn't beat us to it first. Will be a 2023 project for us (https://github.com/breck7/copypastetaxes).

I've been a supporter of https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes and they are doing amazing grunt work that will be a big part of the solution.

Also, here's a great image of the first income tax return: https://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/h...

It used to be 1 page. IIRC my own tax return last year was well over 100 pages. 100x increase in complexity by that simple measure, and I'm not an expert but I don't think human brains have grown by that much.