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Personal Finance and Investing

Girard442

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2. About a bazillion years ago, New Yorker had an excellent article on tax reform. You can:

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:11 PM

Jan 2021

1. Make your taxes simpler.
2. Make your taxes fairer.
3. Make your tax bill smaller.

You can accomplish #1 if you forget #2 & #3. You can accomplish #2 (and for some people #3) if you forget #1. Anyone who tells you they have a plan to accomplish all of them is bullshitting you.

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They wanted Income Tax Returns to be the size of a post card - some musings [View all] question everything Jan 2021 OP

Send me the bill Midnightwalk Jan 2021 #1

About a bazillion years ago, New Yorker had an excellent article on tax reform. You can: Girard442 Jan 2021 #2

The 1040-EZ form is still jacked up Shermann Jan 2021 #3

Before the Reagan "tax reform" one could exclude $200, I think, of interest and dividends from question everything Jan 2021 #5

I took the H&R Block tax preparers class once. nilram Jan 2021 #4

Tax return on a mega-postcard. "Bigliest postcard ever, many people are saying. MAGA!" /nt progree Jan 2021 #6