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I don't mind paying taxes.

I mind that I have to /do/ taxes because a bunch of companies lobbied to ban the IRS and financial institutions from just collating the data they already had on me and crunching the numbers.

And then some different ones managed to get themselves made gatekeepers to electronic filing.

Jean-Karim Bockstael @jkb

@Azure Here in Belgium the tax administration already knows about my income as my employer had to let them know, so I just have to (electronically) sign the pre-filled paperwork using my ID card. I still would have to edit it before submission if the situation was less straightforward though (eg if I had kids, or owned a house that I rented, made tax-deductible donations, earned money abroad, ...) but that's a balance between convenience and privacy that I'm happy with.

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