[walkedaway]

Can people in the EU chime in on this? My understanding is that is how France does it (just go to a website, pay what the gov't says you owe because the gov't has all the details).

> I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah I assumed back in the 80s this was a no brainer.

Edit: I see below that many from Sweden, UK, Germany have chimed in and basically said only the US is this stupid when it comes to federal and state income taxes. Thanks for the info.

[snorremd]

Norway is technically not in the EU, just the EEA (European Economic Access) zone. But we do it the same way. Our tax authorities get all information they need from employers, banks, stock brokers, etc. Each citizen then get a tax settlement report and can submit a pre-filled tax statement online. You make any adjustments to taxable income or tax deductions that might be missing, and then you are done. Pretty simple.