[realusername]

For basic taxes yes but you have annex forms which are 20 pages long in the french system.

[Thorrez]

20 pages? My 2024 full pdf from turbotax was 644 pages.

[QQ00]

644 pages? WTF

[xeromal]

80% are just boilerplate text with one text box per page. It's shitty paperwork but it's not 644 pages of tons of input. There person you're replying to probably owns a business or works in multiple states or something goofy like that. They're on the upper end of complicated

[Thorrez]

I do not own a business. In 2024 I only worked in CA. However, a couple years back I worked in MI for a few days, which means for the following 4 years I have to file MI taxes as well due to RSU vesting. So my 2024 taxes were federal + CA + MI.

For details about why RSU vesting requires 4 years of MI taxes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676698

[sofixa]

Yes, and? Nobody would fill all annexes. They are annexes because they're not part of the common path, and are only needed in specific scenarios. Their length is kind of irrelevant.

[terminalshort]

This is exactly the way it works in the US. All the really complex parts are never even used by 99% of people.