• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Income tax always struck me as a deliberate way to make your average joe hate taxes when they could, very easily, be calculated at time of payroll without you ever being shown the “pre tax” amount.

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      1 month ago

      I don’t care about seeing the amount or not. I care that I have to deliberately set up my withholdings incorrectly to hopefully not end up owing too much more at the end of the year. If I set it up accurately I would end up owing thousands more.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        That’s because Republican “tax cuts” are often just a change in the withholding rate.

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      1 month ago

      They already do that tho, payroll tax is paid by the employer without the employee every seeing it.