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by Jordan_Pelt 645 days ago
>and computerised taxation (except in the USA).

I don't understand this. Does he not think the IRS uses computers?

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Their primary user interface is the paper form. Finally being rectified in 2024, forty+ years after same country invented the internet and thirty+ after the web.

No, potentially malicious, rent-seeking “e-file” third-parties aren’t good enough.

Americans generally still have to compile and file tax returns. In other countries that is often entirely automated.