We need pre-filled tax forms.
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If the government can pre-fill my tax form, why should I even have to file taxes to begin with? Just send me the pre-filled information each year and tell me I need to correct it if it's wrong. Otherwise, I shouldn't have to do anything.
Basically how we do it in Norway, and probably lots of other countries that does it automagically.
1st of April every year we get our pre-filled tax form (digitally), which we have to look over. If we find it to be alright, we don't have to do anything (deadline the 30th of April) and the taxes have been filed. All financial institutions sends data to our tax office, so it's all there.
We need a simpler tax code with fewer deductions before a simple tax form will make sense. Otherwise people will just get their simple tax form and pay TurboTax or someone else to squeeze every penny out of the deductions.