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Former head of IT at a tax authority of a small EU nation here. We get 95+ percent of online filing for private income tax (and have for 20 years), of course there is no fee, and you can have your refund on your account in a few hours. The whole process takes around 30 seconds. AMA.

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Same in Australia, well except our refund usually takes around a week.

And it gets better every year too. More and more data automatically pre-filled. More and more of the form intelligently hidden unless you need it.

And yet every year I’m blown away by these stories from the US about all the hoops they need to jump through just to submit a simple tax return.

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