[whimsicalism]

The US basically has a privatized version of this.

Pretty much all I need to do is upload a 1099 for my bank account interest & cap gains, everything else is autouploaded.

The main difference you have to realize is not that our system is actually super shitty, we just have 4x the number of people to complain about things.

[bestcoder69]

In the US, if you fail to file then you won’t receive your EITC. In practice, in the US poor neighborhoods are littered with scammy tax preparers for this reason. I’d call our systems substantially different.