making me enter a special code and fill out forms and pay for the ‘deLuXe’ tax software because only that can handle the right forms

i assume other countries do this too. scum apps more like

  • Alteon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The IRS has set up instructions on how to do the paperwork yourself. You are fully capable of reading and following directions. If you really don’t want to pay the software, then file for yourself.

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      8 months ago

      Your response is tone deaf. The American tax code is intentionally complicated to protect tax filing companies and to allow the rich to take advantage of loop holes. I can’t believe how housebroken some people are that they defend the shitty tax system instead of sharing in OP’s anger.

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        8 months ago

        I mean yeah the tax system sucks, but a single 1099 isn’t complicated to fill out

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      you’re fully capable of leaving a sensibly sympathetic reply, and yet here we are