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[An angry kid sits at his desk in school complaining]
Kid: Ugh why don’t you teach us about things we’ll actually need to know as adults?!
[An unamused teacher]
Teacher: Ok, I’m going to teach you how to do your taxes while also dealing the death of a loved one
[The teacher, wearing the same expression, holds a knife in one hand, and a hamster in the other]
Teacher: Please itemize your deductions while I deal with Mister Hamps, the class pet
[A class of shocked and crying kids look on in horror while trying to simultaneously do their taxes. The cries of the hamster off screen are cut off abruptly]
Hamster: SQWEEE- -
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This week we will be learning how to apply for a marriage certificate, how to find reputable marriage counselling, how to file for divorce, how to pay alimony, and how to skip nail and move to Venezuela
And then I’ll remind you that it’s well within most governments’ capabilities to do their citizens taxes for them. Also any for-profit service you use to do your taxes uses the money you give them to lobby the government to keep the tax system this way. Also your taxes are getting used for unfathomable crimes, and there’s no paper trail or audit done to them to prove your tax dollars are going where you’d like them to.
In the UK, unless you’re self-employed, taxes are just kind of automatic. It just gets handled by your employer.
If you’re self-employed, and especially so if you’re VAT-registered, it can be a bit fiddly. For most people, however, it’s just handled invisibly.
Those things tend to not all happen at the same place and time.
Specifically, places where bribery is done in the form of lobby usually have audits and paper trails showing where the money goes to.
I’ve been living in 5 different countries and I still have to find one place where doing your taxes is not an absolute nightmare.
They all have been slightly different nightmares, I will concede that point.
Depends entirely on how complicated your income/expenditure is. This year was the first time in 10 years or more that I needed to add to my pre-filled tax notice (major reno, deductions worth it). I may have missed out on a few hundred € of deductions in that time, but my simple life has always been listed immediately correct: Income from national work/benefits, voluntary retirement insurance, stocks&funds wins, losses, dividends. Finland.
Switzlerand is a breeze. Digital, prompt led, explanations next to the form fields, import of precious year. Takes five minutes to upload a phone scan of a few documents, a bit longer for more complex data entry like trading dates.
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This life lesson definitely does come in handy the older you get. Nothing like receiving complicated tax forms that have to processed for your dead relative / spouse / or child to remind you of how cruel the world is.
The debt your grandmother had is now yours! If you don’t resolve it she will haunt you.
Sorry for your loss!!!
Now fuck you pay me.
As I understand it, even in third world shitholes like the US, debt itself doesn’t transfer… but you do have to deduct debt from inheritance before you get anything.
Pretty sure it depends on the state. In NY, my mom’s credit card debt disappeared when she died. I do not think that’s the same in other states. I assume it usually transfers to the spouse.
Depends on the debt, too. The feds changed things a few years ago so federal student loan debt can’t be discharged in death.
I’ve not lived in many states, but when my dad died in Maryland, there was a period during which creditors had three opportunity to collect from his estate, then any debts were considered forfeit.
Spouses yes, but only because things are generally in both names. Children no. They’ll try to lie and say it is, but it’s not.
Lol, go fuck yourself, bill collector! You get nothing! You lose! God day sir!
I had some slimeball try that shit with me after my mother died. I told him to take it to the courts so he can get laughed out of the room and pay court costs cuz my mother died pennyless and I’m not making that my problem.
Depends massively on where you are located.
Debts don’t transfer when you die where I am from. Even if the estate can’t pay off all the debts with remaining assets the debts do not go to the inheritors.
What a concerning meme from a concerning username.
It could be worse.
It could be an unsexy animal fucker.
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