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CA State Offers To Prepare Simple Tax Returns

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-confusion dept.

Makarand writes "California is ready to roll out a program for taxpayers where the state will offer to fill out their tax forms for them if they are simple enough. Taxpayers will merely have to go online, download and review the completed forms prepared for them and confirm their return. This program is supposed to save money for the state, reduce tax related headaches for many and bring into the tax system those who are not paying any taxes currently. The state will take information it already receives on W-2 wage statements, put it in the right boxes on the tax return, and do the math."

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  1. Wow. by PornMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds fantastic to me. Of course, plenty of people may miss out on possible deductions, but overall, simplifying compliance is a wonderful thing.

    Hooray for simplicity!

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  2. too late by croddy · · Score: 2, Funny
    and i JUST switched my residency to georgia!

    oh well, i suppose i'll just have to console myself with all this extra untaxed cash.

    1. Re:too late by xs650 · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least you can finally marry your sister legally.

  3. Simplified tax form... by Ingolfke · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. How much money do you have?
    2. Send check for amount specified in step #1.
    3. You still owe, work harder next year.

    Thank you,
    Your Government

  4. We need the "Send what you feel like" Tax. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The tax system is too complicated... we need the Fair Tax."

    Even better. The NO TAX system. I get to keep all my money, and the government gets what I feel like sending.

  5. Re:National by pipingguy · · Score: 4, Funny


    This is a bad idea.

    Simplifying the tax code could result in hundreds of thousands of coke-bottle glasses-wearing bean-counters wandering around North America looking for work.

    Finding none, they would eventually gang together and attack the rest of us threatening paper cuts and possible thrown pen damage.

  6. Re:National by John+Hurliman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse me but I take offense to your comment. We have staplers too.

  7. Those who don't by supertsaar · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...and bring into the tax system those who are not paying any taxes currently

    Wow...that's it, I'm moving to California and be one of those people...

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  8. H&R Block is like my girlfriend. by raehl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's say I want to do activity A, like go to the strip club. And she wants to do Activiy B, like anything other than go to the strip club.

    I will say 'Hey, we should go to the strip club. Do you want to go?'

    Of course, we all know the answer is No. But there's no way she's going to just say 'No, I don't want to go to the strip club', because she's female, and that would violate the laws of physics. Instead, she'll say "It's Sunday. The strippers on Sunday are ugly."

    And I'm supposed to pretend that the reason we're not going to the strip club is that the strippers are ugly on Sunday, not that I'm dating a jealous, selfish prude.

    Actually, maybe H&R Block isn't like my girlfriend. If you let someone else do your taxes for you this time, you can still pay H&R block to do it next time.

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