Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner … LIDE 700F)
rhkramer writes:
> In the US, the rich in general have a vested interest in, well, not
> precisely "keeping the entire process bewilderingly complicated", but
> keeping lots of loopholes and such that they can take advantage of to
> reduce their taxes.
Actually much of the complexity comes from attempts at social
engineering followed by attempts to *close* the loopholes opened
thereby. Look at the bit of insanity called "the alternative minimum
tax", for example.
"Online filing" has killed the tax simplification movement.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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