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What I think every time someone tells me they wont use school math in the real world....
The funny thing about "they didn't teach us how to do taxes!!!" is the government puts out a 100+ page instruction book every year along with the 1040 form that tells you exactly how to fill every box of that thing out.
But it involves paying attention, reading, and following instructions.
Most people don't want to do that.
@kilroy_was_here @freemo Wait, 100 pages? I thought the claims that filling taxes in the US is too complicated were somewhat exaggerated, but this really is ridiculous.
You dont need to read the whole thing... its not complicated really... most of the pages are optional stuff... Like filling out the basics is just a few pages.
The reason its 100 pages is all the options stuff it covers. Basically so you can do all the fancy stuff the rich people do :)
Exactly, you aren't filling out 100+ pages, the reason it's that long is to answer every question you may have and cover every situation that may exist in the process of filling out the actual much shorter form.
Like if you were living in the middle of the desert with no internet or phone, with this book and the actual form you can still do your taxes. That's the idea.
In fact there are two versions, the EZ version is like a page or two.. its the full version that is large with many optional pages...
@freemo @timorl
Not anymore, it was discontinued in 2018 after the 1040 was redesigned to be much simpler and only take up 2 pages.