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To those who live in the US and other applicable countries, and are of the age to, when do you file your taxes?
Also applicable if you have an agency or third-party do your taxes for you, in such a case, when do you have your taxes filed and prepared?
I filed it shortly after I got my W-2, but that's because I needed the return money at the time.
I only vaguely understand the American taxation system. It's so foreign to me that I think you'd be similarly confused by the way tax works here. Unless you run a business, you pay your taxes automatically every time you get paid, or buy something. It just happens without you knowing about it.
You only need to arrange to pay tax on specific occasions like if you buy something cheap and then sell it at a higher price.
Ah. It's the same way here, but usually they either take out too much or not enough. So they just give you the numbers and have you calculate how much they should have taken at the end of the fiscal year and they give you back if they took too much. It's stupid as hell, really. Also, they give you credit if you can claim dependents and all that shizz.
We have a clever system here (not often I'll say that about this country). Basically most items cost a fifth more than they actually cost.
A big manufacturer sells to fifty local retailers at 120% the true cost. The retailers sell them on to one million consumers at the same cost. The manufacturer pays their extra 20% to the government as tax. The fifty retailers hand over the extra 20% they took from consumers and claim back the extra 20% they were charged by the manufacturer. The government is 20% up, the consumers have contributed 20% and everyone else is even, no matter how many links in the chain there are.
To get a 20% contribution from a million consumers on every item bought over a year is a massive undertaking. The way we do it, the government gets one payment per manufacturer, one payment per retailer, and one claim back per retailer. That's 101 claims in the above case. And those 101 claims cover everything a million people bought at each of fifty stores for a whole year. Perhaps a billion items.
Who wants to count a billion things when you can count just over a hundred and get the same result?
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If I get a refund, as soon as I get my form. If I'm not getting a refund such as this year, it shall be efiled on the 17th. Pretty convenient they pushed it back this year with the 16th being some kind of holiday for D.C. but also I'll get paid. Everyone will be happy.