Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
The correct redistributionary policy is to eliminate the need for the tax preparation industry outside of business administration, i.e. authorize the IRS to estimate your full liability and mail the documents for your verification.

A lot of lower-income people don't know that you can adjust withholding on the W4, which leads to many of them overpaying taxes that they are not liable for and not recovering it in refunds. Government-1, working class-0.

Meanwhile, the IRS audits poor people over EITC as much as it audits the 1%, because the Republicans have for a generation been progressively cutting their budget and the IRS literally admits it has no personnel and funding to do complicated audits so it has no choice but to do simpler EITC audits terrorizing the poor as a revenue-generating strategy. Government-0, rich people-1, poor people--1.

I wonder what Phil would make of that last one.
Everything about the US Government is insane - you took all the wrong lessons from two World wars.

Here only the self-employed file their own taxes, which they do because they are operating as a business. If you think you've been over-taxed you can file you a change of tax code, at which point the Revenue will re-calculate and pay you the difference, with interest on anything from the previous tax-year.

You're unlikely to be in the wrong tax code unless you change jobs, or work more than one job.