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by hedora 1017 days ago
The chart in the thing you linked says most people with 90th percentile income should itemize, and that there’s a greater than 10% chance you should itemize if you make median income or greater.

Of course, figuring out if you should itemize requires the same amount of paperwork as actually itemizing.

Anyway, even when I was a student with nothing but W2 income, I still had to find my W2, and get a 1099-INT for my student checking account. That took more than 10 minutes.

Before that, I had to figure out how to figure the tax on my high school income, which also took more than 10 minutes.